⏳ PRINTED ON DEMAND — Please allow 3–4 weeks for delivery

This book is printed one copy at a time when you order it. There is no warehouse shelf of these — your copy goes on the press after you check out. Hardcover binding takes longer than paperback. Please allow 3–4 weeks from order to delivery.

About this book

Charles Ayers Faust's 75 New Alphabets (1912) is exactly what the title promises: seventy-five display alphabets for the sign painter's idea file — fancy scripts, bold blocks, Egyptians, novelty letters, and decorated capitals, drawn for copying and ready for the panel. When the job called for something beyond the standard hands, this was the book the 1912 letterer reached for.

The value of a big alphabet collection is variety at speed: a client wants "something different" and the painter needs it today. Faust's seventy-five give the working letterer a deep bench — display letters for show windows, fancy initials for monogram work, bold faces for outdoor boards — each alphabet complete with the numerals and characters to letter a whole job.

For the modern sign painter and lettering artist, the collection is a period idea file that still works: authentic 1912 display lettering, free of modern mannerisms, ready to be painted as-is or adapted. Because every alphabet is complete with figures and characters, the book doubles as a working specimen file: pull a letter, scale it to the job, and paint. Pinstripers, glass gilders, and tattoo artists will find plenty to borrow as well.

For sign painters, lettering artists, pinstripers, glass gilders, and collectors of alphabet books. Seventy-five alphabets, 1912 vintage — an idea file that never empties.

Details: 6×9" hardcover (case laminate), black and white interior, cream paper.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1912 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1912 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1912 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

Printed on demand by IngramSpark. One copy at a time — no inventory, no waste.