Trade secrets : a collection of practical receipts for the use of sculptors, modellers, stone masons, builders, marble masons, polishers, &c. ; to which is added a description of the various stones in the United Kingdom suitable for monumental purposes, &c.
A practical trade manual of receipts, or recipes, compiled by Joseph Barlow Robinson and published by the author in Derby, England, in 1862 for sculptors, modellers, stone masons, builders and polishers. The four pictures are display titles in ornate blackletter capitals, one ruled alphabet of decorated initials, and a few lines of Gothic-style lettering; a designer might take from them ideas for ornamental headings, drop caps and Victorian show-card lettering.
