Specimen of printing types from the Boston Type & Stereotype Foundry. John G. Rogers, agent.
A printers' type specimen book issued by the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry in 1832, published in Boston for compositors and printing shops buying ornaments, cuts and type. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut-style printers' cuts: numbered oval vignettes of birds and plants, a page of miscellaneous objects such as a horse, key, chair and pitcher, and rows of repeating rule borders, useful to a designer for vintage ornament, decorative dividers and small pictorial motifs.
