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"A Show At" Sho' Cards (1918) — Digital Download The show-card writer's bible, as an instant download. "A Show At" Sho' Cards by F. H. Atkinson & G. W. Atkinson (1918) is the definitive manual for the show-card writer: hundreds of lettered card designs, price tickets, sale cards, and display layouts, with alphabets, borders, ornaments, and color schemes for every kind of retail sign card. D..

"Atkinson" Sign Painting Up to Now (1909) — Digital Download The classic 1909 sign painter's manual, as an instant download. "Atkinson" Sign Painting Up to Now by Frank H. Atkinson is the turn-of-the-century sign painting text that sign design enthusiasts revere — 75 alphabets covering every standard style with their modifications and alternates, plus 96 sample sign designs and layouts with acco..

Elementary Alphabets and Their Construction (1927) — Digital Download The beginner's lettering primer, as an instant download. Elementary Alphabets and Their Construction by Ross F. George (5th ed., 1927) is the starter book for Speedball pen lettering: how to hold the pen, basic strokes, constructing each alphabet from simple forms, and practice drills — the foundation every letterer begins wit..

How to Paint Signs and Sho' Cards (1920) — Digital Download 100 alphabets and designs, as an instant download. How to Paint Signs and Sho' Cards by E. C. Matthews (1920) is a complete self-instruction course: 100 alphabets and designs, plus chapters on mixing paints, gilding, tricks of the trade, and commercial art work. DetailsComplete 1920 edition scan — 102 pages 100 alphabets and desig..

The original Speedball pen booklet, as an instant download. Presenting the Speed-Ball Pen, with Alphabets by Gordon & George (1915) is where Speedball pen lettering started — alphabets, drawings, and designs executed with the first Speed-Ball lettering pens, by the pens' co-developers William Hugh Gordon and Ross F. George. DetailsComplete 1915 booklet scan — 46 pages Alphabets, drawing..

The Expert Sign Painter (1922) — Digital Download The sign painter's desk reference, as an instant download. The Expert Sign Painter by A. Ashmun Kelly (2nd ed., 1922) is the trade's bench reference: lettering principles, alphabets and numerals in every style, layout and spacing, color harmony, gilding on glass and wood, gold and silver leaf, smalting, stencil cutting, varnishes and mediums, gla..

The Sign Painter: The Best Ways to Learn Sign Painting (1916) — Digital Download A complete trade course in sign painting, as an instant download. The Sign Painter by A. R. Hussey (1916), from the Pullman School of Lettering in Chicago, is a complete system of lessons for beginners — first principles, lettering alphabets and layouts, then working processes: gilding on glass and surfaces, gold an..