Moderne Vignetten und Zierat : Modern vignettes and ornaments : Katalog/catalogue : J.G. Schelter & Giesecke : Leipzig, Deutschland : nd [c.1899} : page 25
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.
I have scanned a selection of pages from this lovely catalogue; two pages are missing but, given its age and its use, that is neither unusual nor unexpected. The plates usually show a selection of the vignettes and ornaments along with their catalogue number and set in fictitious 'adverts' and settings simply to show how they may be used. As noted above they are so much of their time; strongly romantic in style and often displaying Jugendstil motifs that in a few years would be considered alongside the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. They are also likely set in various of the company's typefaces.
Moderne Vignetten und Zierat : Modern vignettes and ornaments : Katalog/catalogue : J.G. Schelter & Giesecke : Leipzig, Deutschland : nd [c.1899} : page 25
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.
I have scanned a selection of pages from this lovely catalogue; two pages are missing but, given its age and its use, that is neither unusual nor unexpected. The plates usually show a selection of the vignettes and ornaments along with their catalogue number and set in fictitious 'adverts' and settings simply to show how they may be used. As noted above they are so much of their time; strongly romantic in style and often displaying Jugendstil motifs that in a few years would be considered alongside the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. They are also likely set in various of the company's typefaces.