Specimens of the job division type, Government Printing Office.
A specimen book issued by the United States Government Printing Office in Washington in 1897, showing job-printing typefaces for the government's own printing work. The first picture shows a bold condensed alphabet in capitals and lowercase, the second a serif capital alphabet set at 60 point, and the third a page of steamboat and sailing ship engravings used as printer's cuts. A designer could take from these the spacing and stress of nineteenth-century wood-type display faces and the compact clarity of ship vignettes.
