Alphabets & Ornaments / Ernst Lehner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehner, Ernst, 1895-1971, author.

Contributor:

Trautwein, Joseph, typographer, designer.

Sternberg, Peter, donor.

Sternberg-Hertz, Ursula, former owner, autograph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lettering.

Alphabets.

Decoration and ornament.

Genre:

Printed books -- 20th century -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Specimens.

Embossed stamps (Provenance) -- 20th century -- United States -- Specimens.

Blind stamps (Provenance) -- 20th century -- United States -- Specimens.

Physical Description:

256 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm

Edition:

First Edition

Other Title:

Alphabets and ornaments

Place of Publication:

Cleveland : World Publishing Company, [1952]

Contents:

Introduction

Title Pages and Frontispieces

Letters and Alphabets

Fleurons and Borders

Headpieces and Vignettes

Silhouettes and Shadow Figures

Applied Ornaments and Pattern Books

Script and Scrolls

Heraldic Ornaments and Allegoric Cartouches.

Notes:

"This book was composed in Janson types of Westcott & Thomson, Inc., Philadelphia. Printed by the Copifyer Lithograph Corp., Cleveland, on a special Stoneridge Ivory paper stock made by the Curtis Paper Co., Newark, Delaware. Bound by The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, in Bancroft Oxford Natural Finish cloth. Typography and design by Joseph Trautwein."--Page 256.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256).

Local Notes:

NK3600.L36 1952: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Peter Sternberg in 2019 has dustjacket retained. Front free endpaper has "Property of Tom Henly" and has "Tommie" on title page; autograph of Ursula Hertz. Six pages from 'American Fabrics' and two samples in addition to a written note on 'The Spezialist' are laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Lehner, Ernst, 1895-1971, https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwJXPY3Td8M9THTpqPYT3. Alphabets & ornaments.

OCLC:

15287687