Das Schriftgiessergewerbe in Frankfurt am Main und Offenbach

Frankfurt am Main: Gedruckt mit Unterstützung der Schriftgiesserei D. Stempel AG, 1926. Portfolio. 16 3/4 x 11 5/8 inches. Sheets measure 16 3/8 x 11 3/16 inches. [x] pp. plus 29 plates. Title page with an eagle vignette on a red shield-shaped ground, list of tables, colophon, 39 plates, the plates are either single sided, folded, with 1 double-folded (3 panels) and show various type specimens produced by a variety of type-foundries; text clean, unmarked, paper toned, some minor wear to the edges of the sheets. Housed in a folding portfolio with red cloth spine, gray paper over boards, printed paper top cover label, silk ties at the fore-edge; binding (truncated) square and tight, the portfolio may be a modern replacement for the original portfolio salvaging the front cover only. SCARCE. CH818-922a. Very Good.
FIRST EDITION, no limitation stated; printed at D. Stempel AG type foundry using Ratio-Latin and Ratio-Italic faces designed by F. W. Kleukens for D. Stempel AG. Collotype plates made by Kunstranstalt Werner & Winter. This portfolio contains a series of specimen sheets showing the history of type design at Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach from the sixteenth- to the twentieth-centuries. Gustav Mori was born at Frankfurt am Main; he was a German type designer who was the head of head of the department at the type foundry Stempel from 1908 until his retirement. As a collector, he owned more than 200 original typeface samples from various German type foundries from the 15th to the 20th century. Mori's collection of title pages, printer's devices, initials and specialist literature was donated to a museum he founded in 1940, but most of it was destroyed during World War II. The remainder was given to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. Mori was awarded the Goethe Plaque by the City of Frankfurt in 1947. 9 copies Worldcat. (Inventory #: CH818-922a)