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Typographic Ornaments of the Girl's Own Annual
PI: Gillian Mothersill, Associate Professor, School of Graphic Communications Management, Faculty of Communication & Design
Late in the Victorian period The Boy's Own and Girl's Own paper provided weekly information, advice and entertainment, including fiction, music, poetry, contests and non-fiction articles to young people. Yearly, the editions of these magazines were bound and distributed around the globe. Lavishly illustrations of typographic ornaments (now known as "drop caps鈥�) signifying the beginning of major articles. This project seeks to identify and catalogue the ornaments, investigate their use, and ascertain how (and by whom) they were printed.