I went to one of those little Church fairs yesterday, as someone had assured me it was a craft fair (it was not, unless you count wobbly fairy-cakes and amature face painting as crafts) and amidst the tombolas and ‘guess the weight of the Christmas cake’ stalls, was a single secondhand book stall. For the princely sum of 50 British Pence, I got four books – one of which was the lovely a4 sized book above. An absolute bargain, this book contains dozens of pages of copywrite free Victorian typographical flourishes and edgeings. Some of them look stunningly modern and angular, and others reinforce my preconceptions of Victorian meaning swirly and flowery.

I intend to scan in a great many of these pages for my own use at some point in the future, and if others would have use of them, I may post some up here periodically – but if you wish to own the book yourself, it seems that Dover Publishing will sell it to you for $13. Not quite the same bargain as mine, but not far off.