Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The engraver's guide, the sign painter's guide, the school master's assistant & the young student's desideratum.
Call Number
C South 08/Drawer 07/GC179/Half Folio GA 2007.04415
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctb09jm142
Publisher
New York : [s.n.], 1874.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1874
Extent
1 item ; sheet 49.8 x 61.8 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [publisher]
Medium: Engravings
Inscribed in plate: "Or a simple scale by which the most uninitiated can construct the letters of the Roman Alphabet relatively or individiually with elegant proportion".
Signed in plate, lower center: "Published by F. W. Devoe & Co. Manufactureres and importers of artists' materials, white lead, zinc white, colors and varnishes. New York.".
Signed in plate, lower center: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1874, by William M. Tompson, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. (Renewal.).

Discovery Information

Subject
Alphabets—Specimens
Broadsides—United States—19th century—Specimens
Penmanship, American—Study and teaching
Broadsides—New York (State)—New York—1874
Printed ephemera—United States—19th century—Specimens
Ephemera—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e4ebab88-18c3-4c7c-9967-e99d52000279/manifest