I was away on an “old” Finnish summer house a couple of weeks ago for Juhannus, during that time I came across some brilliant old books from the 1900′s and around that era or ealier.

I love variety of typographic ornament found on those books, the attention to details and the perfect clean layouts. Examples below go through 1903′s leather bound bible, featuring gothic typography, book cover’s illustration hot foil stamping, beautifully balanced page layouts to amazing front cover’s title drop cap.

Overall, a beautiful collection of historical typefaces, ornaments, icons and layout inspiration and know how.