Desk book of type specimens, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts : catalogue of printing machinery and printers' supplies
A type foundry's trade catalogue issued by the American Type Founders Company in Philadelphia in 1900, showing its faces, ornaments, rules and machinery to jobbing printers and compositors ordering supplies. Pages hold alphabets at display size, blackletter and roman words set as samples, swash flourishes and pointing-hand dividers, engraved borders, corner pieces and ruled frames printed in dense black, usable as display lettering, rule work and spot ornament.
