Catalogue of printing types, rules, borders, cuts, etc., put up for amateur printers by the New England Type Foundry Company, No. 243 Washington Street, Boston, Mass
A Boston type foundry's 1875 catalogue offering printing types, rules, borders and cuts to amateur printers, issued by the New England Type and Stereotype Foundry from Washington Street. The single picture is a woodcut-style cut of a horse-drawn steam fire engine priced at $1.50, showing how a small shop sold ornamental illustrations as ready-made blocks. A designer could take from it the bold, heavy-outlined look of nineteenth-century commercial cuts, with a clear silhouette and dense hatching that reads well at small size.
