This letter A design is one of a group of 19 letter images that I found in a book about Japanese fairy tales from 1887.
All of these drop caps are about twice as tall as they are wide and feature a dark, outlined letter on top of flowers and leaves. The greenery is different on each letter. The letter A appears to be all leaves, except for a single flower at the bottom. I suspect you could easily colorize this letter image and turn it into something uniquely your own.
The other letter designs in this group are: C, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, M, O, P, Q, S, T, V, W and Y.
If this isn’t exactly what you had in mind, be sure to check out our entire collection of vintage fancy letter A images.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
