TYPE SPECIMEN - WEISS, Johann Georg. 
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Rare Type Specimen TYPE SPECIMEN - WEISS, Johann Georg. Sammlung von Schriftproben der Buchdruckerei Joh. Georg Weiss in München. Ausgegeben im Juni 1841. Munich, Joh. Georg Weiss, 1841. Tall 8vo, (225 x 150 mm), chromolithograph title in gilt and blue, pp. [iv], ll. 88, of type specimens, including numbers, fleurons and borders, followed by 8 double-page plates with 71 colour-printed vignettes and line-engraved patterns and designs; mauve publisher’s pebble-grain blindstamped cloth; blocked spine lettering; quite faded; from the library of the Polytechnischer Verein Munich; internally clean and crisp.
First and only edition of the only type specimen issued by the Munich printer Johann Georg Weiss. The carefully prepared and well organised type specimen presents in separate chapters: the latest Fraktur (Black letter) typefaces; the latest Gothic typefaces; Antiqua and Cursive typefaces; various typefaces; decorated title fonts; figures and signs; lines and borders as well as vignettes and guilloches. In his preface Weiss outlines that more than one hundred type faces are presented, together with decorated type faces, figures and signs. Particularly appealing are his colour-printed vignettes. He prides himself that after two years of ownership of the printing works his collection of type faces is extensive, but by no means exhaustive. Any reasonable requests for further additions would be considered. The Polytechnischer Verein Munich existed between 1815 and 1938, when it was incorporated into the Office for Technical Sciences in the German Labour Front, supervising standards in the printing industry amongst others. (see Pfisterer Herbert. Der Polytechnische Verein und sein Wirken im vorindustriellen Bayern (1815-1830), 1973). Verzeichniss der Sammlungen des Börsenvereins der deutschen Buchhändler p. 724; WorldCat: Leipzig.
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