Sign and show card writing
A trade manual on sign and show card writing by Charles F. Butterworth, published in Chicago by the Dry Goods Reporter Co. in 1899 for shop sign painters and card writers. The plates are pen-drawn display initials and opening words set in blocks, combining blackletter and heavy roman capitals with scrolling foliate infill, hatched backgrounds and small landscape vignettes of trees and water; useful as drop caps, headline lettering models and ornamental corner blocks.
