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This post shows the photos I have taken on January 15th while I was at Nerman's bookstore.

 

 

On every cover, these Push Pin style illustrations pair with typefaces revived from the art nouveau and victorian times for photosetting. Also, that font used on the spine and the back cover uses details in certain glyphs, including an unusual N, a unicase M, descenders on J/Y, serifs on E/L, ink traps on D, and a 45-degree line on 2/3/B/R.

 

 

Let me know if you have any thoughts to share!

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The last unidentified one (“Just For Me”) is a version of Page’s Caxton.

The designer apparently worked exclusively with faces adopted by Headliners as part of their Morgan Press Collection. At least all these designs appear in their catalog, with the following numbers:

MP 416 = Teutonia
MP 368 = Siegfried
MP 312 = Caxton
MP 392 = Robusta
MP 334 = Gothic Bold
MP 321 = Burlesque

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and also found flying free in (thanks to nick sherman) the wood type collection of t. j. lyons. 12 line tuscan outline

it can be found online in the RIT library.

 

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That looks good!
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I have just found the origins of the Tuscan Outline, known as Burlesque: https://forums.typeheritage.com/topic/burlesque/

 

If Florian can accept that, it'll put the font into the Fonts in Use database.

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Sure, bring it on! Once there is a submission featuring this typeface at Fonts In Use, we’ll make sure to give it an entry in the database. If you provide us with the information you found (like the THP link), all the better.
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al least follow me (eurobia plain) and out and away (gothic condensed bold ulc) are a match. still looking for the other two suspect an american wood type origin.

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I think FOLLOW ME appears to be Krebs' Robusta from about 1901. The digital open-source revival was in 2020 by Peter Wiegel. Close enough, but nice try on that variant.

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indeed the weight felt a bit light. thanks for the information. and good luck with the new ones.
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Wait. I think I've just found something on the internet. Swiss phototypesetter Affolter and Gschwind marketed some of the phototype versions in their Old Foundry sub-collection in their 1981 Letterama catalogue (cat. no. 1197) and also in the Headliners Morgan Press catalogue from the late-70s as MP 416.

 

Are there any clues about where this font originated in?

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The Headliners catalog was all based on wood type, so that's one clue.
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Yep possibly that's a good guess for wood type. I could see sharp ink traps on the glyph but still looking for an original name and foundry where it was created. Pix below are more one-line examples from the 1968 Headliners and Morgan Press catalogue as illustrated:

 

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The Headliners adaptations are said to be based both on wood and foundry type from the Morgan Press Collection. This isn’t the whole truth, though: numerous of the faces are derived from showings in Petzendorfers Schriftenatlas, Neue Folge, including several that are handlettered alphabets by Schnorr and Gradl, which – to my knowledge – hadn’t been made into physical type.

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The spine typeface is Teutonia, possibly known as something else in the phototype era. It has been digitized by HiH.

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