Bauersche Giesserei - Type specimen book

Type specimen book. 8vo, pp.[viii], 120, inserted plates, Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt am Main, (October 1958).

Upwards of twenty pages of advertisement layouts printed in colours. Orange buckram (a little soiled) with gilt spine title, upper board blocked with a gilt device. A very good copy.

Typefaces include, Stephanie & Noblesse (both about 1870), an extensive range of Weiss (E.R. Weiss, 1926), Lucian (Lucian Bernhard, 1925), Corvinus (Imre Reiner, 1934) Elisabeth (Elisabeth Friedlander, 1937), Amalthea (1957), Imprimatur (K.F. Bauer, 1925), Futura (Paul Renner, 1930), Volta (K.F. Bauer, 1955), Beton (Heinrich Jost, 1936), Alpha (K.F. Bauer, 1954).