#fleuron

lanston corners

showing of decorative corners in Monotype Borders and Ornaments [p42], last section of the master catalog, Monotype Type Faces [n.d., but issued during frederic goudy’s tutelage—1930s-40s].

fournier’s oblique silhouette flowers

first illustration is page 117 from pierre-simon fournier’s seminal Manuel Typographique [tome ii, imprimé par l`auteur, se vend chez barbou, paris, 1766]: vignettes 322-3, the fleuron pair of interest. john ryder tells us: «… because it is cast obliquely on the typebody, is capable of many variations in arrangement. Its immediate origin may be a crude little design of Luce [louis-renè luce, the third royal punch-cutter of the imprimerie royal] but certainly binders’ stamps of a similar kind existed in the sixteenth century.»  [john ryder, A Suite of Fleurons, charles t. branford, boston, 1957, p40]. «Fournier’s flowers earned him the admiration of the world.» [ibid., p39].

two formes showing composition with montype’s recuttings of the pair [english monotype 475-6]:

2nd illustration: letterpress on hahnemühle ingres, silver gray;

3rd illustration: letterpress on kitakata.

nuremberg arabesque

diapered lozenge formes. the unit is a monotype recutting [lanston monotype 486—english monotype also cut one, their 240], & the exemplar may have been the fleuron cut by johann andrea endter before 1721 for use in his nuremberg printing office—it is shown in the book issued by his heirs in 1733, Die Wol-eingerichtete Buchdruckerey; but the design did not originate with endter. [cf. john ryder, A Suite of Fleurons, charles t. branford, boston, 1957, p35].

1. letterpress on curtis retreeve vellum, rouge.

2. letterpress on mohawk superfine white eggshell.

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