Post #2693052
2025-10-21 13:03 UTC
Casually looking around for an 1867 printing of the Divine Comedy with Dorés engravings at original size, I chanced upon this 1938 printing from Berlin with a rather ghoulish dedication page, but more interestingly, some kind of uncial grotesk attempt in the body type. Elsewhere some Walbaum and what might be Genzsch-Antiqua.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235196758869?_skw=Dante+Alghieris+G%C3%B6ttliche+Kom%C3%B6die&itmmeta=01K83DH3JS9GKB8WZD4SP85DJF&hash=item36c2d1bb55:g:wO0AAOSwcfVk~3Zl&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1fRLAeLfwVnPjnxAKj%2BQyySo%2FCIIJzK0sKMhylxfcHyLkzEcVBhJmr8WLRDpYzgvIOfPKf%2F9Rv0RJtvES%2Fjf62AWV%2F8G43b8AaTJyFicE7gF%2BAlVom94EAT0CQSAFb6F8iktp3kZrIPPXEOTyV36FNg0WWCp9qU8iemmhPnqnSDRw32zZTFg1jq34D6sKQZXK77BSZAg32cR1b5gSRh4CXvp%2FZ4OZWUzHaWRCp8Slz8UlGQBE8z18VxMUyF1V7YT%2FLP8NNGjfcpLRkshM7dDSkw%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8i5xO3AZg
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@typeoff@typo.social 2025-10-21 13:59
@johnbutler@typo.social The “uncial” is the Stefan-George-Schrift, created for George’s poems, around 1905. Supposedly by replacing several letters from Berthold’s Akzidenz-Grotesk. The foundry may have done this for him but the records haven’t turned up. This book looks really nice!!