#1 Edition: Presenting The Speed-Ball Pen with alphabets, drawings and designs produced with this wizard of lettercraft, June, 1915.

#2 Edition: A Comprehensive Text Book Modern Pen Lettering; The A-B-Cs and 1-2-3s. Undated; ca. 1916

#3 Edition: Not yet found; the search goes on! #4 Edition: A Comprehensive Text Book Modern Pen Lettering; 4th Edition Revised by William Hugh Gordon; 1918

#5 Edition: A Comprehensive Text Book; Modern Pen Lettering 5th Edition Revised by Ross F. George, William Hugh Gordon; 1920

#6 Edition: A Comprehensive Text Book; Modern Pen Lettering 6th Edition Revised by Ross F. George, William Hugh Gordon; Undated, ca. 1921

#7 Edition: The Speedball Text Book; Modern Pen Lettering; Revised7th Edition by Ross F. George, William Hugh Gordon; 1922-1923

#8 Edition: The Speedball Text Book Modern Pen Lettering 8th Edition Revised by Ross F. George, William Hugh Gordon; 1925

#9 Edition: The Speedball Text Book Modern Pen Lettering 9th Edition Revised by Ross F. George, William Hugh Gordon; 1926

#10 Edition: The Speedball Text Book Modern Pen Lettering 10th Edition Revised by Ross F. George, William Hugh Gordon; 1927

#11 Edition: The Speedball Textbook; Modern Pen Lettering by Ross F. George 11th edition, 1929

#12 Edition: Speedball Text Book - 12th Edition; Modern Lettering for Pen & Brush - Poster Design for Student, Teachers, Craftsmen

by Ross F. George; 81 pp. 1933 / 1935 / 1936

#13 Edition: Modern Lettering for Pen and Brush, Poster Design; Speed Ball Text Book by Ross F. George, 1938

#14 Edition: Speedball Text Book: Lettering, Poster Design, for Pen or Brush by by Ross F. George; C. Howard Hunt Pen Co., 1941

#15 Edition: Speedball Text Book: Lettering; Poster Design, for Pen or Brush; Edition 15 by Ross F. George; C. Howard Hunt Pen Co;

88 pp., 1948

#16 Edition: Speedball Text Book; Lettering, Poster Design for Pen or Brush; by Ross F. George; Hunt Pen Co., 96 pp., 1952

#17 Edition: Edition: Speedball Text Book: Lettering, Poster Design, for Pen or Brush; by Ross F. George; Hunt Pen Co., 96 pages, 1956

#18 Edition: 1960

#19 Edition: 1965 #20 Edition: 1972 - 1973

#21 Edition: 1984 - 1985 #22 Edition: 1991

#23 Edition: 1999

One Hundred Loose Leaf Lessons in Lettering with Pen & Brush by William Hugh Gordon; 1920.

Mr. Gordon not only created and introduced the Speedball pen line in 1915, he was also published as a lettering expert apart from the Speedball project. Depicted is a folio of practice pages capitalizing, no doubt, upon the popular success of his

book, “Modernized Methods in the Art & Practise of Lettering for Commercial Purposes” two years earlier, in 1918. This presentation likely contributed to the decision, around the same time, to issue a smaller loose leaf set of lettering lessons for Speedball, authored by Gordon’s partner, Ross F. George - eventually the single name identified with Speedball for over 40 years.