Specimens of holly wood type
A type specimen book issued in 1880 by the Hamilton Manufacturing Co. of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and published by Hamilton & Katz, showing printers the display wood types they could order. The pages print large sample letterforms in single-colour black ink on cream paper, including a blackletter capital, a sans-serif slab word, and a decorative swash-style word. A designer might take from them the range of Victorian display lettering, from condensed gothic caps to flourished and shaded faces built for poster headings.
