Specimen of modern printing types by Edmund Fry, Letter Founder to the King, Type Street.
A London type specimen book of 1828 issued by Edmund Fry, letter founder to the King, for printers and buyers choosing typefaces and printing ornaments. Its pages are mostly wood-engraved ornaments and small vignettes, including eagles, a horse in harness, cherubs in a landscape, a swan, a boxed wreath and a sailing ship, shown with price marks such as 3s. A designer could draw on these as compact, slightly naive wood-engraved motifs for borders, tailpieces and label decoration.
