Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc
A trade specimen book issued by the American Type Founders Company in Chicago in 1897, showing the types, borders, rules, ornaments, stock cuts and press equipment it sold to jobbing printers. Pages mix display alphabets with flourished swashes, ruled and shaded panel shapes, engraved views of machinery and hardware, and thousands of small relief cuts, all in flat black line suited to direct reuse as letterforms, frames and spot images.
