For those looking for some of the flashier headline types out of the Victorian era, you can hardly do better than this. Mr Solo shows a great collection of typefaces, many with figures/numbers, and some with lowercase letters. For the fans of this era of lettering and artwork, books like this and Victorian Display Alphabets offer you a source for period faces, many not seen for more than a hundred years. While Mr. Solo may have renamed many of these, the beauty of the lettering remains.
The only things I wish Mr. Solo had done, if he could, would be to gather the lower case letters and include them, while it is stated that these typefaces are "complete", that's a misnomer, the faces shown are all that the author has, not all that were originally created. And second, to offer/show a one line sample of each typeface by name to give the buyer or user of the book a quick reference as to what is contained within. If the publisher could or could have included that on the cover I think there would be a lot more buyers of books like these. The same treatment should be done for all books of this nature.
This is a good deal even at twice it's price!