Specimens of printing types

American Type Founders Company, Thomas, Frederick Folger, b. 1885 · 1897 · New York : American Type Founders Co. · 4 pictures

A type foundry's specimen book of 1897 published in New York by American Type Founders Company, showing printers' ornaments, borders and cuts for compositors and job printers. Its pages display ornamental border strips, decorative corners and electrotyped emblem cuts laid out as sample sheets. A designer could draw on the dense, symmetrical border patterns, scrolled corner pieces and heraldic seal cuts as ready-made decorative vocabulary.

American Type Founders Company · Type and type-founding -- United States · Printing · Printing machinery and supplies -- United States · Printers' ornaments

Internet Archive · University of California Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library