The Year's art
The Year's Art, published in London by Macmillan and Co. in 1880, was an annual survey of the art world aimed at collectors, artists and the general art-minded reader. Its pictures are small black-and-white printed items: an ornamental border with floral scrollwork, a typeface specimen from a stereotyping firm, a tabulated table of prize counts for 1876 to 1878, and an engraved view of a glasshouse with palms and a pool. A designer might borrow the botanical border ornament, the Victorian display lettering, or the ruled table layout for period-styled pages.
