An invaluable reference for graphic designers, this collection of copyright-free typographic ornaments is sourced from specimen books of type foundries, dating from 1700. It is also a history, and so David Jury explains how the need for these ornaments arose and developed, and he discusses; geometric forms; rules and borders; wreaths, borders, and scrolls; and pictorial ornaments. Here too is an account of the rise of the graphic designer over the last century, and how modern designers are now reworking these ornaments into new forms of art.