Specimen book of electrotypes comprising Pacific coast scenery, general illustrations, trade cuts, advertising novelties, &c. furnished by the Pacific press publishing house ...Oakland, Cal.
A specimen book of electrotype plates issued in 1885 by the Pacific Press Publishing Company of Oakland, California, showing ready-made engraved cuts offered to printers and publishers. Its pages hold general illustrations of ships, icy seascapes, Arctic travellers, portraits and village scenes, arranged as sample sheets. A designer could take from them the compact, high-contrast black-line vocabulary of nineteenth-century wood and steel engraving, with clear figures set against light ground.
