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Stock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages was a catalogue put out by Benson Printing Company of Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 1922. It included, as the title suggests, a catalogue of stock blocks, a sort of early clip art or stock image, presumably so their customers could select what they wanted used in the work done for them.
There is a copy of this book at archive.org but not in very high resolution.
Title: Stock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages
Published by: The John A. Hertel Co.
City: Nashville, TN
Date: 1922
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Full-page template or border with castle
A two-colour illustration of a mediæval castle and a rather tall tree sit on the right-hand side of this full-page [more...] [$]
Maenad and Faun Full Page Border
In this full-page design a mænad, or female faun, part human and part goat, is sitting under a tree playing a pipe; a male faun is seated next to her playing pipes and with a laurel wreat round his hair. They are topless, [...] [more...] [$]
Here we have a knight in chainmail riding a horse. He carries a shield on his left and a lance raised upright with a pennant flying at the tip. He is blowing into a horn, presumably to announce his presence. In front of him, and to our right, a very solidly-built archway with a brazier, or bracket, over it for holding a light. There is no door: it is [...] [more...] [$]
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