Specimen book of type faces and decorative material.
A 1923 New York specimen book from D. Gildea & Co., inc., issued for printers and typesetters to show their type faces and decorative material. Its pages present ornamental borders, rules and printers' ornaments, each numbered and printed in black on cream paper, offering a ready reference for page furniture. A designer can take from these frames and fleurons a range of Victorian-revival border patterns, from dense scrollwork to dotted lacework and repeated foliate bands.
