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Excerpt from Fonts and Font Covers
The third part deals historically with Pre Conquest, Norman, Gothic, and l'ost Reformation. Design, and concludes with a chapter on the desecration and destruction which has befallen so many fonts and covers. It may be mentioned here that, as in his other publications, the writer recognises no hard and fast periods of font design any more than he does of architectural design. For convenience labels have been attached, it must be borne in mind that they do not necessarily connote chronological facts. When a twelfth century font is spoken of, it is not to be inferred that the font is necessarily work of that century. All that is meant is that its design IS such as was most common in the twelfth century. It may actually be work done in the later years of the eleventh, or in the early years of the thirteenth century. As for fourteenth and fifteenth century work, no line of demarcation can be drawn at all i font design of the first half of the fourteenth century shades off by impero ceptible transitions to that of the work of the last half of the fourteenth century, the fifteenth, and the first half of the sixteenth century.
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