Instructions on modern show writing; practical instructions on show card writing with the brush and pen--covering all the modern methods in the elementary rudiments of this art
A 1913 trade manual by J. G. Bissell, issued by his own company in New York, teaching show card writing with brush and pen to sign painters and shop advertisers. Halftone photographs show a hand holding a brush over lettered cards, paired with line specimens of alphabets, ornamented numerals and script, blackletter and condensed gothic forms usable as display type references or process illustrations.
