Practical phrases of show card writing; a complete manual of the best and latest methods of brush and pen lettering with comprehensive color notes embracing all the most appropriate alphabets, abundantly and accurately illustrated with full description of all the materials necessary
A 1922 trade manual from the St. Louis Show Card School, teaching brush and pen lettering to sign writers and shop-window card makers. The plates are heavy black letterforms drawn stroke by stroke, each numbered arrow showing the order and direction of the brush, alongside full alphabets and color notes a designer can lift for display type, instructional diagrams, or arrow-and-numeral marks.
