I will never not be mesmerized by the elaborately galactic and symmetrical specimen pages from the “artistic printing” era, demonstrating circles, ovals, rules and other border elements.

Here are a few from a 1910 Schelter & Giesecke catalog, the latest addition to the Typographica Library listing of online type specimens. More info in the Flickr caption. https://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/albums/72177720304022148

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