Illustrated Catalog: Letterer's, Sign-Painter's and Show Card Writer's Supplies (1908) — Paperback Reprint

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About this book

Illustrated Catalog: Letterer's, Sign-Painter's and Show Card Writer's Supplies, 1908. The Detroit School of Lettering supply catalog — back in print.

The Detroit School of Lettering taught the trade by mail, and this 1908 catalog sold its students everything they needed: brushes, paints, pens, show card writing supplies, and sign-painter's materials — illustrated throughout, with prices. It is the material culture of the lettering trade in a 30-page booklet: what the tools looked like, what they cost, and where a 1908 student bought them.

For the vintage lettering manual collector, it is the perfect companion to the instruction books — the manuals teach the hand, this catalog shows the tools. For the show card writing enthusiast, the supplies on these pages are the very ones the great show-card books assume. A scarce piece of trade ephemera from the height of the correspondence-school era.

The sign painter's shopping list, circa 1908 — reproduced complete.

Details: 6×9" paperback, 30 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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1908 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 1908 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 1908 manual with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

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