Woellmer 1896

Muster-Sammlung von Wilhelm Woellmer’s Schriftgiesserei und Messinglinienfabrik, Serie C, 1896, Berlin

XVI + 408 + 12

30 pages added (14a+b,17a+b, 19a, 20a, 68a-d, 81a+b, 88a+b, 128a-d, 160a+b, 192a+b, 328a-h)

 

I. Abtheilung Fraktur-Schriften, Schwabacher, Gothisch, Canzlei etc.

II. Abtheilung Reine Antiqua- und Mediaeval-Schriften

III. Abtheilung Titel- und Accidenzschriften

IV. Abtheilung Cursivschriften

V. Abtheilung Initialen, Polytypen, Hände, Klammern, Zeichen, Untergrundtypen, Ziffern etc.

VI. Abtheilung Messinglinien und Messing-Erzeugnisse

VII. Abtheilung Einfassungen und Ornamente aller Art

VIII. Abtheilung Vignetten, Zieleisten, Schlussstücke

VIII. Abtheilung Fremdsprachliche Schriften

Anhang Holzschriften und -Einfassungen

My copy lacks the price list (26 pages) and machinery part (24 pages), which obviously never have been attached.

 

Compare to this copy (a lesson in dating specimen books).

 

Provisionally dated (inside the "Berliner Gewerbeausstellung" of 1896 is mentioned three times: on the dedication page, on p 128b and on 148. So this specimen should be at least of 1896, maybe one or two years later, but not of 1900, because the "Unzial Gotisch" which was released in 1900 is not present inside this specimen book).

 

 

Siblings of this one in my collection:

Woellmer 1925

Hauptprobe ca. 1926

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