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The pen company’s commercial compendium, as an instant download.
The Practical Compendium of Commercial Pen Lettering & Designs (1918) from the Newton Automatic Lettering Pen Co. is the manufacturer’s own treasury of commercial lettering and designs — pen-company showmanship meeting working trade content. A period piece with real usable plates.
Inside this 1918 course:
Every alphabet in this 1918 edition is drawn for the pen, not the press: one-stroke and built-up letterforms and commercial lettering layouts, shown step by step. Keep it next to your nibs — lettering artists, sign painters, and show card writers use books like this as daily practice copy. Work the plates with a Speedball B-nib or any poster pen — the drills build the same hand the trade ran on.
Complete your shelf: See also Speedball Text Book: Modern Pen Lettering, 8th Edition (1925), Speedball Text Book: Modern Pen Lettering, 7th Edition (1923), Speedball 10th Edition Textbook (1927).
Details:
- Complete 1918 edition scan — 104 pages
- Manufacturer’s treasury of commercial lettering
- Pen-company plates and designs
- Practice plates drawn for the Speedball and poster pen — work them with any broad nib
- Alphabet construction, spacing, and commercial layouts in lesson order
- Drills that build the speed and consistency the trade paid for
- Two files included: the original scan, cleaned of dust, stray marks, and handwritten notes, and a cleaned white-background edition that's easy on the eyes and the printer
- PDF format, instant download after purchase — no physical book ships
