64 DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



design for no less than three separate architectural periods — 

 Norman, Early English, and Decorated ; or, as some people 

 prefer it, Norman, First Pointed, and Middle Pointed. 



Next year I hope to deal with several more or less interesting 

 fonts of the Perpendicular, or Third Pointed, style. These 

 are not numerous, however, and the gradual decline of richness 

 in ornament, and poverty of thought in design, will be still more 

 noticeable than in the last two periods which have been dealt 

 with. 



