R & A specimens
A job-printing type specimen book issued by Geo. C. Rand & Avery in Boston in 1865, showing the firm's display faces, borders and stock forms to printers and commercial customers. Pages carry ornamented capitals, engraved script lines, wavy rules and foliate corner pieces printed in green, blue and red, plus ruled blank bank drafts and invoice headings ready to be lifted as letterforms, frames or form templates.
