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- Model: BK-SIGN-SHOW-CARD-WRITING-1899
Where sign writing meets show cards, as an instant download.
Sign and Show Card Writing (1899) by Charles F. Butterworth bridges the two trades — sign writing and show-card writing taught together, as they were practiced together in 1899. The crossover title for both shelves.
Inside this 1899 textbook:
From Charles F. Butterworth (1899): ~64 (catalog: "64 p.") pages of price-ticket and sale-card layouts and brush handling for card work, arranged as working lessons rather than picture plates. A working reference for show card writers, retail advertisers, and sign painters, not a coffee-table book. Card writers kept books like this at the counter, lettering real tickets between lessons.
Complete your shelf: See also The Art of Show Card Writing (1922 ed.) (1922), The Art of Show Card Writing (1907 ed.) (1907), A Textbook on Show-Card Writing (1903).
Details:
- Complete 1899 edition scan — 86 pages
- Sign writing and show cards in one volume
- The 1899 crossover method
- Card-writing alphabets with the speed drills the trade ran on
- Advertising lettering for store windows and counter cards
- Brush control exercises from the trade schools
- 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
