Category Archives: Ornaments and Typography

Presenting a Book to Pope Paul II

Description	English: “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword”: engraved motto from an 1879 book
Date	1879
Source	Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms (https://archive.org/details/hillsmanualofsoc00hill_0/page/n13/mode/2up)
Author	Anonymous

The background has been made transparent.

Description	English: Printer’s ornament with shipping theme
Date	1830
Source	Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments from the Letter-Foundry of J. Howe, & Co., Philadelphia, 1830 (https://archive.org/details/specimenofprinti00jhow/page/n5)
Author	Anonymous

The background has been made transparent.

Description	English: Allegorical printer’s ornaments from 1830
Date	1830
Source	Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments from the Letter-Foundry of J. Howe, & Co., Philadelphia, 1830 (https://archive.org/details/specimenofprinti00jhow/page/n5)
Author	Anonymous

The background has been made transparent for use against any color.

Description	English: Holly-branch tailpiece (with the background made transparent)
Date	1901
Source	The St. Nicholas Christmas Book (https://archive.org/details/stnicholaschrist01newy/page/18>
Author	Anonymous

Description	English: Holly-sprig ornament from the title page of a Christmas book (with the background made transparent)
Date	1899
Source	Betty Leicester’s Christmas (https://archive.org/details/bettyleicestersc00jewe/page/n10)
Author	Anonymous

Description	English: Holly-wreath ornament or frame
Date	1901
Source	The St. Nicholas Christmas Book (https://archive.org/details/stnicholaschrist01newy/page/n7)
Author	Anonymous

Description	English: Ornament representative of printing, with profiles of Gutenberg, Faust, and Schoeffer
Date	1875
Source	The Art Preservative (https://archive.org/details/artpreservative100phil/page/n7)
Author	Anonymous

Two versions of the Pennsylvania state seal. The one below includes an arch of states, with Pennsylvania (of course) as the keystone.

The background has been made transparent so that the pictures can be used against any background color.

Description	English: Two-color design for a Christmas card
Date	1900
Source	Christmas card from the Lennox and Addington Historical Society Collection (https://archive.org/details/1975.9.17)
Author	Anonymous

Description	English: Typographic ornaments for Christmas from a 1919 magazine
Date	1919
Source	Bookseller & Stationer?(https://archive.org/details/stationeryoffice1919toro/page/n781)
Author	Anonymous

Description	English: Woodcut version of the Jesuit emblem from a 1653 book
Date	1653
Source	M. Tullii Ciceronis Laelius, sive De Amicitia, Graecè redditus à Dion. Petavio, è Socetate Iesv
Author	Anonymous

Description	English:?Initial N with the printer presenting his book to Pope Paul II
Date	1482?(reprinted 1893)
Source	Originally from a 1482 edition of Ptolemy’s?Cosmographia; reprinted in?Early Illustrated Books?(https://archive.org/details/earlyillustrated00poll_1/page/38/mode/2up)
Author	Anonymous