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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. Please allow 2–3 weeks from order to delivery.

About this book

Roy C. Claflin's 1922 Standard Lettering does exactly what its title promises: it sets the standard. This vintage lettering manual presents the dependable commercial alphabets every sign painter and show card writer needed — the standard letterforms for signs, cards, and display work, drawn cleanly and ready to copy.

Claflin understood the working letterer's reality: most jobs don't call for novelty, they call for correctness. His alphabets are the trade's reliable standbys — Roman, Gothic, and display styles proportioned for legibility and built for the brush and pen. The 1922 instruction keeps to practical construction and spacing: letters that read at distance, hold together in a line, and reproduce under deadline.

For sign painters, show card writers, and hand letterers, this 1922 manual is a bench reference in the truest sense — the book you reach for when the job needs to be right rather than remarkable. Beginners get sound models to copy; professionals get a refresher in the fundamentals that underpin everything fancier. Collectors of antique lettering books will appreciate its honest, workmanlike character.

Whether you letter for a living or are learning the trade, Claflin's Standard Lettering is the dependable friend on the shelf. The standard, from 1922.

Details: 6×9" paperback, 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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1922 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 1922 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 1922 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.