The Carey type book.
The Carey Type Book is a 1918 type specimen catalogue published by the Carey Printing Company in New York, aimed at printers and typographers choosing letterforms and ornament. Its pages show decorative initial letters in a Della Robbia style, set in black line with coloured fills, and plain ruled and dotted printer's border rules arranged in rectangles and horizontal strips. A designer could take from them the interplay of ornate capitals and simple repeating borders on a warm off-white ground.
