Zwey neue Lieder
A small German broadside songsheet of two new songs, printed around 1700 and attributed to Johann Conrad von Mechel I, probably for ordinary readers who sang the ballads to familiar tunes. The title page is set in a dense mix of blackletter and roman capitals, with a woodcut of a crowded street scene below, showing figures in period dress, a building with arches and a crowd of onlookers. A designer could borrow the stacked, varied type hierarchy and the compact woodcut vignette as a model for a mixed-type poster or a historical editorial layout.
