#bauer type foundry

dust jacket from the 1944 edition of goethe's works designed by tschichold for verlag birkhäuser, basel. dust jacket frame composition with fleuron (leaf) designed by emil rudolph weiss for the bauer type foundry [Weiß—fraktur, bauersche gießerei, frankfurt am main, 1913, p32]. publisher’s device also by tschichold.

i acquired the bauer type foundry library’s copy [after indeterminate journey] of that indispensable reference: A Treatise on Title Pages by theodore low de vinne; being the 1914, 2nd edition issued posthumously by the oswald publishing company, nyc. john clyde oswald, publisher of American Printer, after de vinne’s death obtained rights of publication to several de vinne publications, notably «The Practice of Typography» series. the 1914 oswald edition of A Treatise on Title Pages has a canceled title-page, & so was made up from sheets still standing at the de vinne press. the weiss types did not issue until 1928—cf. ‹vase 2›—thus giving terminus post quem for the volume’s entry into the bauer library.

Newberry call number: Case Wing folio Z250 .A5

Wing folio Z250.5.B47 B38 1927

- Original (4494 x 6192) -

Bauer Beton specimen page, 1931 on Flickr.

Futura brochures, 1938 on Flickr.