The Inland Printer, Vol. 23 (April-September 1899)
The pattern
This still is filed under Lettered cover hook.
Define
The cover is the hook, and the hook is lettering: a title treated as an image.
Mechanism
Type as bait. The words are drawn so they stop the hand before the contents are known.
Verdict
A journal, book, or issue must sell itself on a rack or a feed
Why it works
It is a standard utility page inserted by the digitizer, offering no design of its own.
Steal this when
You are appending metadata to a digital archive. *Collection note: Six months of The Inland Printer - the trade journal that ran the first monthly changing magazine covers and taught American printers modern layout.* ---