Specimen of printing types and ornaments
A Philadelphia type specimen book of 1830 by J. Howe & Co, issued by the company to show its printing types and ornaments to printers and buyers. The first picture is a plate of engraved hands pointing with numbered ornamental cuts and a decorative cartouche, and the second is a rotated engraving of a figure on a wheeled cart beside a sketch of a ladder-like frame, so a designer can draw on the pointing-hand cuts and the crisp, numbered plate layout for display ornaments.
