Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Typenkunde des XV. Jahrhunderts
This is a 1914 Halle publication of the Gesellschaft für Typenkunde des XV. Jahrhunderts, a German society of type historians, issued through its distributor E. Karras and edited with contributions from Voulliéme, Collijn and Polain. The picture here is not a typeface sample but a bookplate-style title page for the John Henry Nash Library at the University of California, presented by the Ray family and Ray Oil Burner Company of San Francisco. Its art nouveau-influenced border, with a classical female figure, a lyre, a mask and a view of a campanile across water, offers a designer a model for ornamental frames and vignette layouts.
