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Printer’s Flowers

Printer’s flowers were cast like letters and set in rows to build borders, frames and tailpieces. The Baltimore 1832 pieces are bold and classical: rosettes, acanthus, palmettes, Greek key, and squares that repeat edge to edge. The Boston 1889 sets are finer, with corners, terminals, dashes and spiralling Grimaldi flourishes.

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Printer’s Cuts

Stock pictures for notices and handbills: ships, eagles, trades, beasts, pointing hands and almanac scenes.

1,051 designs

Signs & Symbols

Zodiac, planet, apothecary and mathematical signs from the typecase, plus crochet charts and globe diagrams.

70 designs

Decorated Initials

Capitals for an initial or a monogram: flower-inlaid, oak-leaf, fluted, blackletter, spiral and tiled.

252 designs