08/26/2026
These visual tropes follow the history of our technology! Vintage Ornaments!!! The history run away slave cuts follow the history of the technology! This documented specimen page comes from:
* George Bruce, A Specimen of Printing Types, New York, 1837
* The original catalogue is unpaginated, so it does not have a reliable printed page number.
* The full specimen page is reproduced on page 80 of Dori Griffin’s Type Specimens: A Visual History of Typesetting and Printing.
* The accompanying discussion continues on pages 81–82.