The Art & Practice of Typography / A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement

by Edmund G. Gress

EXAMPLE 89
The acanthus leaf, much used by the Greeks and Romans in ornamentation

EXAMPLE 90
Palm-like ornament, used by Greeks and Romans

EXAMPLE 91
Plain and dignified. The Doric pillar

EXAMPLE 92
Slightly ornamental. The Ionic pillar

EXAMPLE 93
Elaborately ornamental. The Corinthian pillar