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Moderne Vignetten und Zierat : Modern vignettes and ornaments : Katalog/catalogue : J.G. Schelter & Giesecke : Leipzig, Deutschland : nd [c.1899]
A fine catalogue showing a wide range of a printer's standard range of vignettes and ornaments and issued by the Leipzig based typefoundry of J.G. Schelter & Giesecke. Undated it includes specimen adverts dated to 1898 and it is mentioned in various German printing periodicals as being available in the latter half of 1899.
Many of the items are wonderfully 'arts and crafts' in style, along with examples of late Nineteeth-Century German romanticism that have a strong feel of what was to become known as Jugendstil. The company were both a typefoundry and a manufacture of printng presses that dated back to 1819. Based in the important printing city of Leipzig the company was nationalised by the new East German state in 1946.
Moderne Vignetten und Zierat : Modern vignettes and ornaments : Katalog/catalogue : J.G. Schelter & Giesecke : Leipzig, Deutschland : nd [c.1899]
A fine catalogue showing a wide range of a printer's standard range of vignettes and ornaments and issued by the Leipzig based typefoundry of J.G. Schelter & Giesecke. Undated it includes specimen adverts dated to 1898 and it is mentioned in various German printing periodicals as being available in the latter half of 1899.
Many of the items are wonderfully 'arts and crafts' in style, along with examples of late Nineteeth-Century German romanticism that have a strong feel of what was to become known as Jugendstil. The company were both a typefoundry and a manufacture of printng presses that dated back to 1819. Based in the important printing city of Leipzig the company was nationalised by the new East German state in 1946.