The art of show card writing; a modern treatise on show card writing, designed as an educator in all branches of the art...With two hundred and fifty-six illustrations and thirty-two lettering plates, comprising all the standard ancient and modern styles
A trade instruction manual on show card and sign lettering by Charles J. Strong, issued in 1907 by the Detroit School of Lettering for sign writers, window trimmers, and commercial artists. Plates give complete alphabets in blackletter, roman, and brush scripts, brushstroke diagrams with directional arrows, and card layouts framed by foliate scrollwork, cartouches, and flat two-tone floral panels usable as borders, blank sign shapes, and display type references.
