The art of show card writing; a modern treatise covering all branches of the art ... with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations and thirty-two lettering plates, comprising all the standard ancient and modern styles
A trade manual on show card writing by Charles J. and Lawrence J. Strong, published in Chicago by Frederick J. Drake in 1922 for sign painters and shop advertisers. Plates give alphabets in blackletter, script and block, brush-stroke construction diagrams with directional arrows, and blank ribbon scrolls, panels and Art Nouveau borders sized for card copy.
