Specimen faces, linotype composition;borders, rules and dashes.
A specimen book issued in 1909 by Walter B. Davis of New York, a type-founder's catalogue of linotype borders, rules and dashes for printers and compositors. The first picture shows graduated curved dash rules numbered 1105 to 1126, and the second shows a page of vertical border strips in dotted, beaded, striped and diamond patterns, rotated sideways on the page. A designer can take from them a ready vocabulary of ornamental rules, with tapering swells and repeating dot, bead and diamond motifs for dividing text or framing a layout.
