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About this book

The 1916 Ticket-Writing and Sign-Painting belongs to the generation that lettered America before the war changed everything — and it is a working manual through and through. Ticket writing was the retail trade's own lettering craft: price tickets, sale cards, and window announcements, lettered by hand in the store or by the jobbing card writer who served a whole street of shops. This book teaches the ticket alphabets, the fast readable hands, the layout of a selling card, and the sign-painting fundamentals underneath it all.

The 1916 date captures the craft in its prewar maturity. The methods are the settled professional practice of the 1910s — the brush and pen techniques, the standard card sizes and layouts, the color combinations that read from the sidewalk — taught in the direct instructional manner of the trade manuals of the day. Nothing here is theoretical; every lesson aims at cards a working man could letter and a storekeeper would pay for.

For collectors, the 1916 edition is the earlier state of the ticket-writing literature — the prewar practice against which the 1920s manuals can be measured. For ticket writers and sign painters today, it is a solid period text in the fastest of the lettering trades, from the years when hand-lettered retail was at its peak.

An antique ticket writing book from the prewar retail trade. For ticket writers, sign painters, and collectors of the card-writing literature.

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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1916 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 1916 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 1916 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.