Borders and Ornaments : Designed by E. R. Weiss : printed at the Cambridge University Press : 1926 : cover

            A small, sixteen page catalogue of typographical borders and ornaments designed by the noted German artist and designer Emil Rudolf Weiss/Weiß and issued by the Cambridge University Press. This less common interaction between the German designer and a British printer had several strands that year.

In 1925 Stanley Morison had written enthusiastically of Weiss's ornaments in the Festschrift issued to celebrate Weiss's fiftieth birthday and it appears that the following year he used his good offices to ensure Weiss designed the bindings and endpapers of the journal "The Fleuron" in 1926. This issue was published at the Cambridge University Press and includes an advert by Insel for the Festschrift along with mention of several other German typographers. It seems that, perhaps, these links between CUP and Weiss led to this catalogue? The Borders and Ornaments, numbered according to the German Catalogue, had been issued by the Bauersche Gliesserei/Bauer Typefoundry.

In Gerald Cinamon's monograph on Weiss (published by the Incline Press, Oldham) the less than enthusiastic comments about these ornaments by Updike are quoted; they are a little different to Morison's!

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