Specimen des caractères de la fonderie de N. P. Gando à Paris et de son fils Th. S. Gando à Bruxelles
A printers' type specimen book issued by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem in 1917, documenting the typefounding house of N. P. Gando in Paris and his son Th. S. Gando in Brussels. Its pages show ornamental borders and fleuron strips set as printed samples, arranged by body size, as a reference for typographers. A designer can take from them the repeating rules, scrolled acanthus leaves, and floral bands that were used to frame and divide printed pages.
