101 Celtic Illuminated Letters

by Courtney Davis

Book Overview

This design source contains 101 illuminated letters hand painted by the author with the black and white version on an adjacent page which can be photocopied or scanned. There are more examples of letters used at the beginnings of words than of the least common letters.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715317512
• ISBN13: 9780715317518
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

101Celtic Illuminated Letters

Mr. Davis is my favorite author of books on Celtic Design. He is a master of it and besides the designs he has a mind like a color wheel. He is truly talented.

Useful and beautiful

"Courtney Davis ....Offers Celtic Art as displays of richness and colour, intricacy and symbolism to equal the world's finest styles" (quoted from "Arts & Crafts Magazine"). I picked up this book of illuminated letters at a museum in Dublin, and if you are interested in Celtic art, both old and new, be sure to check out the artist's web site at awenpress.com. Courtney Davis has published over 50 books on Celtic art, including coloring books and books of Viking and Celtic tattoos. "101 Celtic Illuminated Letters" is a source book of decorated initials from some of the most celebrated thousand-year-old Celtic manuscripts, including the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels. After a brief introduction, the letters are arranged one to a page, the black-and-white version facing its counterpart colored by Courtney Davis. The letters average around 3.5 to 4 inches high, and are very easy to size up or down using a grid (not supplied). Beauty is combined with humor in the letters of the Celtic Dog Alphabet, and there are also birds and human faces worked into some of the illuminated letters. This is a lovely and useful source book for anyone who is interested in Celtic knot-work, embroidery, or calligraphy.