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English printers' ornaments

Plomer, Henry R. (Henry Robert), 1856-1928 · 1924 · London : Grafton & co. · 10 pictures

A 1924 London specimen book of English printers' ornaments by Henry R. Plomer, compiled as a historical catalogue for printers and typographers. The pictures are black-on-cream woodcut-style borders, corner pieces, rosettes and square tiles, numbered on the page, with dense interlaced scrollwork, acanthus leaves and classical bands a designer could adapt for frames, panels and page edges.

Printing -- Specimens · Book ornamentation · Printing -- History · Printers' ornaments · Typography · Great Britain

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