Types of the De Vinne press; specimens for the use of compositors, proofreaders and publishers
A 1907 typefaces specimen book issued by the De Vinne Press in New York for compositors, proofreaders and publishers, sampling type styles and display letters. The pictures are decorative initial letters: a large black-and-white ornamental O with interlaced foliage, a shaded and leafy U, a knotted-cord I on a stippled ground, and a woodcut A flanked by two figures. A designer could draw on their range of ornamental capitals, from openwork foliage to Renaissance woodcut framing.
