⏳ 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

Signs and Sign Letters by George Steere, c. 1900. A sign maker's catalog of signs and dimensional letters — back in print.

George Steere sold what sign painters couldn't paint fast enough: ready-made signs and sign letters for the storefront trade. This catalog — circa 1900, 66 pages — shows the manufactured side of the sign business at the turn of the century: the letters, the sign types, and the prices, illustrated for the ordering trade.

For buyers of antique sign catalogs, it is the companion piece to the painter's manuals — the other half of the industry, the factory behind the storefront. The letter styles on display are pure 1900 commercial vernacular: useful as design reference for dimensional-letter work today, and irresistible as ephemera.

A scarce trade catalog, reproduced complete for today's sign folk.

Back in print as a hardcover built to last on the shop shelf.

Details: 6×9" hardcover (case laminate), 66 pages, 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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1900 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 1900 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 1900 manual 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.