Toshokan jiten
Toshokan jiten is a library science reference book, compiled by Fujio Mamiya and Tamijiro Sasaoka and published in Japan by Bun'yû-dô in 1900, aimed at librarians and readers working with Japanese and English terms. The two pictures are a line-drawn stack of book edges with a diagonal run of small marks, and a row of three decorative woodcut initials, one with a figure and the letter M, one with a Chinese character above a book stack, and one with a figure beside the letter L. A designer might take from them the idea of the shelved book as a repeated pattern and the framed capital letter as a compact decorative device.
