Eleventh book of specimens of printing types and every requisite for typographical use and adornment
A Philadelphia type foundry specimen book from 1885, issued by Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan Co, showing printing types and typographical materials for printers. The pages present ornamental borders, decorative initial letters, rules, and ornament characters arranged in grid layouts. A designer could draw on the dense, compartmented borders, flourished capitals, and ornament blocks as ready-made decorative vocabulary for period print work.
