In addition to the catalog noted here, Rob Roy Kelly's American Wood Type: 1828-1900 ("Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types and Comments on Related Trades of the Period") is essential to the study of all wood type.
[Specimen Book] (1890)
[Morgans and Wilcox specimen book]. (1890).
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