Specimens of printing types made at Bruce's New York Type-Foundry
A type foundry's specimen book issued by George Bruce's Son & Co. of New York in 1882, showing typefaces and printing ornaments for printers and compositors. The pictures include a Holbein-derived woodcut satire on indulgences, a Dance of Death style woodcut with banderole text, and numbered border ornament strips of scrolls and interlaced lattice. A designer could take historical border patterns and ornamental rules from the printed borders, and woodcut figure compositions with lettered scrolls.
