Bauersche Giesserei - Bernhard Schonschrift.

Bernhard Schonschrift. Royal 8vo, 27cm, 4p + specimens inserted in a pocket at the rear, Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt am Main, (1951).
Specimen pages of Benhard Cursive and Bernhard Cursive Bold and Balle Initials. Elegantly printed samples on different paper stocks at the rear. Sewn into grey paper wrappers, slightly soiled. A very good copy.

Bernhard Cursive (Madonna to Stephenson Blake) is unusual insofar as it was designed by Lucien Bernhard before the roman and italic, which it now accompanies. The lower case has vry tall ascenders and short descenders, b, d, and l, have no top serifs, but h as a finishing stroke. The capitals are flowing pen forms.