"Cocker's Key"

"Design's such as this little character cluster were common features in the works of the many Pen Masters over the last 500 years. Some were elaborately detailed central features of a manual, while others such as this little gem of Edward Cocker's, was used at the end of an alphabetic line merely as a devise to justify a line. Though a very simple composition, it nicely conveys the consistency of proportions within the style, which in this case is an early variant of Italian Hand. This piece, which I call Cocker's Key, contains two-thirds of the alphabet. Literally represented are the letters: o, n, c, d, e, g, h, j, p, & r; implied: a, f, l, o, n & y."

~2014, Don Marsh~
©2014 Don Marsh