After her death, the story of a summer
A late nineteenth-century Boston book by Lilian Whiting, published by Roberts Brothers in 1897 and classed under spiritualism, and the four pictures here are decorated initial letters in a Victorian revival style: a T, an O-like letter, an A and an S, each framed in ornate borders. A designer could take from them a ready set of ornamental capitals with interlaced scrollwork, strapwork and foliage in a bordered square format for display lettering or drop caps.
