Barnāmij al-ḥurūf al-mawjūdah fī al-maṭbaʻah al-madhkūrah = Un échantillon des caractères de l'Imprimerie des belles-lettres = Specimens of types found in the Adabeat Press
A type specimen book printed in 1880 by the Adabiyya Press in Beirut, Lebanon, showing typefaces and ornaments for printers and buyers of Arabic and French type. The page shown is a numbered sheet of rectangular ornamental borders and corner pieces, numbered 7 to 12, printed in black on cream paper. A designer might take from it the framed, symmetrical border systems and corner ornaments that stacked type-founders used to decorate title pages and panels.
