MODERN AND HISTORICAL TYPOGRAPHY
Imre Reiner
Imre Reiner: MODERN AND HISTORICAL TYPOGRAPHY [An Illustrated Guide]. New York: Paul A. Struck, 1946. First English-language edition, limited to 1,000 copies [originally published by Verlag Zollikofer in 1946]. First edition. Text in German. Quarto. Tan paper covered boards titled in black. Printed dust jacket. 127 pp. 160 illustrations. Dust jacket spine sun darkened and chipped to ends. One page has been neatly trimmed out and laid back in. Mild edgewear. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
7 x 9.75 hardcover book with 127 pages and 160 black and white and two-color examples of typographic history. Lovely Swiss production printed on uncoated cream stock and of course, beautifully typeset.
- The Title-Page
- Trade and Business Cards
- The Ornament In Typography
- Cartouches and Vignettes
- Masters Of Calligraphy
- Johann Michael Fleischmann
- Calligraphy and Typography
- Typographic Book Plates
- Thomas Bewich
- Billheads
- Typography In Advertising Art
- Labels and Trade-Marks
- Typographic Miscellany
"Our object should be to establish contact with tradition, using our own means, and thus turning the short-comings we feel when comparing ourselves with past achievements into virtues by dint of diligence."—Irme Reiner, LETTERING IN BOOK ART [1947]
Imre Reiner (1900 – 1987) worked as a graphic designer in London, Paris, New York and Chicago and studied with F. H. Ernst Schneidler, a well-known German designer. In 1931, he moved to Ruvigliana near Lugano to paint, design and illustrate. He designed many fonts including Meridian (1930), Corvinus (1934–35), Matura (1938), Symphonie (1938), Reiner Script (1951), Reiner Black (1955), Mustang (1956), London Script (1957), Mercurius (1957), and Pepita (1959).