The monotype specimen book of type faces. A complete catalog of matrices made for use with the monotype composing machine and with type & rule caster
A Lanston Monotype Company type specimen catalogue printed in Philadelphia in 1922, issued to show printers and compositors the ornament and border matrices available for its composing machine. The pictures are numbered specimen sheets of printers' border and ornament designs, with point sizes labelled under each sample. A designer can take from them a dense library of repeatable border strips, corner pieces, star rows, bell friezes and fleuron motifs suited to vintage print layouts.
