Die Schriftgiesser Bartholomäus Voskens in Hamburg und Reinhard Voskens in Frankfurt a. M.

Frankfurt am Main: Gustav Mori, no date [but 1923].

4to. 11 3/8 x 9 inches. Unpaginated. [ii], 6 pp. 2 plates (loose from the stubs originally mounted upon); text clean, unmarked, paper lightly toned. Cloth spine, cloth tips, patterned paper over boards, printed paper label on front cover; binding square, rubbed. Two bookplates on the front paste-down: "Graphische Fachbücherei Heinrich Jost, Frankfurt A. M" and "Bibliothek der Bauerschen Giesserei, Frankfurt A M." SCARCE. CH818-922c. Good.

LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies, this is number 6, printed in Alte Schwabacher Wertschrift type. "Voskens is a celebrated name in the history of Dutch type founding. The first members of the family of Whom we have knowledge were two brothers, Bartholomeus and Reinhard Voskens, natives of Rotterdam, who on May 21, 1641, formed a partnership "to produce punches, matrices and the equipment essential to a typefoundry, which they proposed to establish.'". McMurtrie, The Inland Printer, October 1924, p. 59. This volume is dedicated to the participants at the 28th Annual General Meeting of the Association of German Type Foundries and in particular Benjamin Krebs. Gustav Mori was born at Frankfurt am Main; he was a German type designer who was the head of head of the department at the type foundry Stempel from 1908 until his retirement. As a collector, he owned more than 200 original typeface samples from various German type foundries from the 15th to the 20th century. Mori's collection of title pages, printer's devices, initials and specialist literature was donated to a museum he founded in 1940, but most of it was destroyed during World War II. The remainder was given to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. Mori was awarded the Goethe Plaque by the City of Frankfurt in 1947. Worldcat shows 13 library holdings.