As I have translated Friedrich Bauer’s accounts of the histories of Berlin-based typefoundries, I have been adding too much commentary. That is quite visible in my previous two entries. At this pace, who knows when I will have gotten through the entire book! To speed the project along somewhat, I have compiled my trans­lations of […]

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For decades after the 1760s, the in-house typefoundry within the Decker printing house was the most significant foundry in Berlin. Arguably, it was only surpassed after Eduard Haenel moved his Magdeburg-based foundry to Berlin in the late 1830s. Despite Decker’s long prominence, it never developed a typeface as influential in German typography as the Unger-Fraktur, […]

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Welcome to part one of what will surely be a long, multi-part series on the typefoundries active in Berlin between 1574 and about 1927. In turn, this is part of my Friedrich Bauer project, in which I slowly translate and comment on the text from Bauer’s 1928 Chronik der Schrift­gießer­eien in Deutschland und den deutschsprachigen […]

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