DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



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When one begins to analyse the Early English style, and note 

 its principal points of beauty, it becomes most apparent that 

 the secret of the whole thing is its lightness and airiness 

 (possibly more noticeable owing to the sturdy Norman which 

 preceded it), and its use of foliage as near and true to 

 nature as the thirteenth century caner was capable of getting. 



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Fig. 7. — Font at Bradley. 



Surely, then, this dog-tooth is much out of place ; there is no 

 real likeness to foliage in it, for it is far more of a geometrical 

 pattern than anything else, yet it is one of the features of the 

 Early English style, but not a feature of it alone, nor its only 

 feature. 



