Letters designed and cut on linoleum blocks / by the Lettering class of Teachers College, Columbia University, 1920
A 1920 portfolio of decorative initial letters designed and cut on linoleum blocks by the lettering class of Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, presented as a teaching sample of printed letterforms. The four pictures show large capitals in black, rust and cream, with an R holding a bird and curling scroll, an animal-filled Z, an O with swirling wave forms, and a P framing a peacock above flowers; a designer could take the bold two-tone block-print contrast and the use of animals and plants inside letter shapes.
