A Brief description of the taxidermic specimens of ohiki, shamo and chabo
A brief description of taxidermy specimens of ohiki, shamo and chabo, Japanese game birds, issued in 1893 by Japan's Nōshōmushō Nōmukyoku (Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Bureau of Agriculture) for exhibition and scientific record. The pictures here are plain title pages with centred serif type, ornamental rules and small printed credits, so a designer might take their symmetrical, spaced-out letterforms and restrained rule ornaments as models for classic printed title pages.
