Specimen book
A type-founders' specimen book issued in New York in 1867 by the firm of Farmer, presenting printing ornaments and decorative material for printers and the trade. The pictures are small black-and-white engraved cuts with catalogue numbers and prices printed beneath, showing an oval frame of books, a flag, a corner border, and a carriage. A designer might take from them the scale and vocabulary of Victorian printers' ornament, including frames, corner pieces and vignettes.
