Spine has been rebacked with new cloth. Title page loose yet present. Some pages starting to separate. Corners rubbed down. New gutters. Issued shortly before the famous ATF Line Type Catalogue as text on the inside front cover states that the prices in this catalogue were superceded by the recently issued Line Type Catalogue. Copyright notice states 1900 but a number of cuts dated 1909 in text. Filled with illustrations of turn-of-the-century cuts and other standard cuts including the work of Will Bradley. Very scarce book. Annenberg p. 43 (who dates this book 1901).