Tschichold

A collection of books in German, mostly trade or book club editions, designed by Jan Tschichold, 1925-62. Includes 12 titles done for the socialist book club Der Bucherkreis, Berlin - about half of Tschichold's entire output for this organisation, one item with rare dustwrapper; also a full and representative showing of his work for Birkhauser, Basel. In all 36 vols, including two duplicates. Collected by the late Jerry Cinamon.

£450

 

References

L & W   Jan Tschichold: Leben und Werk des Typographen, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1977

NLS   Jan Tschichold: Typographer and Type Designer, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1982

Burke  BURKE (Christopher) Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography. Hyphen Press, London 2007

 

1925

SCHAEFFER (Albrecht) Der Falke und die Wolfin. Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, Berlin, 1925. 650 copies. 4to. Pp. 61. Printed at the Staatliche Akademie fur graphische Kunste und Buchgewerbe, Leipzig. Coloured initials. Orig. paper-covered printed boards. Nice copy.

‘Die Initialen zeichnete J. Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 14; NLS 25, claiming binding design and title-page also by JT.

 

1928

ROSS (Colin) Das Fahrten-und Abenteuerbuch. Buchergilde Gutenberg, Berlin, 1928. Sm. 4to. 24 cm. Pp. 236. Orig. cloth.

‘Typographie und Einband: Ivan Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 63; Burke, pp.45-6 (1925 ed.).

 

1929

Insel-Almanach auf das Jahr 1929. Im Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig, 1929. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 208. Paperback.

‘Kalendarium und Umschlag zeichnete Jan Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 59; Burke p.199.

 

1930

DRECHSLER (Hermann) Aus der Werkstatt der Natur. Buchergilde Gutenberg, Berlin, 1930. 8vo. 24 cm. Pp. 203. Orig. cloth.

‘Typographie und Einband: Jan Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 69.

 

FRANK (Josef Maria) Das Leben der Marie Szameitat. Roman. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1930. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 332 + adverts. Orig. cloth.

‘Einband und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, p. 206.

 

NITTI (Francesco F.) Flucht. Die personlichen Erlebnisse eines politischen Gefangenen…Muller & I Kiepenheuer, Potsdam, n.d. [c.1930]. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 253. Orig. cloth, differentially faded and slightly worn at the extremities.

‘Einband und Schutzumschlag von Jan Tschichold.’

 

SCHERRET (Felix) Der Dollar Steigt. Inflationsroman aus einer alten Stadt. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1930. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 232 + [5] (adverts). Orig. cloth.

‘Einbandentwurf: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, p. 206.

 

VIDOCQS (Eugene-Francois) Vom Galeerenstrafling zum Polizeichef. Die seltsame Lebensgeschichte…vom ihm selbst erzahit. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1930. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 280 + adverts. Orig. cloth. Recent clear film lamination.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.

 

1931

GOLDSTEIN (Arthur) Das lustige Buch des Bucherkreises. Eine Sammlung von Humoresken und Grotesken. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1931. 8vo. 19cm. Pp. 236 + adverts. Orig. brown cloth stamped in yellow.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, p. 206.

 

MANCHEN-HELFEN (Otto) Reise ins asiatische Tuwa. Mit 28 Photobildern. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1931. SM. 4to. 24 cm. Pp. 172. Orig. qtr. cloth, printed boards. Edges of outer leaves spotted. Endpapers faded. Edges slightly worn.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, pp. 208-9.

 

TSCHETWERIKOV (Dmitrij) Die Rebellion des Ingenieurs Karinski. Verlag der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1931. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 245 + adverts. Orig. cloth stamped in red.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold, Munchen.’

Burke, p. 206.

 

 1932

GRISAR (Erich) Mit Kamera und Schreibmaschine durch Europa. Bilder und Berichte. Verlag der Bucherkreis GmbH, Berlin, 1932. Sm. 4to. 24 cm. Pp. 136 + [3] (adverts). Numerous black-and-white illusts. Orig. qtr. cloth, pictorial boards. Edges somewhat worn but a sound copy.

‘Einbandentwurf, Satz- und Bildanordnung: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, pp. 210-11.

 

KLAUS (Albert) Die Hungernden. Ein Arbeitslosenroman. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1932. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 205 + adverts. Orig. cloth. Very worn but largely complete d.w.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 67; Burke, p. 207.

 

NIKOLAJEWSKY (Boris) ASEW. Die Geschichte eines Verrats. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1932. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 252 + adverts. Orig. cloth, differentially faded.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

 

SELINGER (Berta) Herz in Flammen. Roman. Verlag der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1932. 8vo. 20 cm. Pp. 216 + [6] (adverts). Orig. cloth stamped in red. Lower cover damp-spotted.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, p. 207.

 

WICKEL (Helmut) I.- G. Deutschland. Ein Staat im Staate. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1932. 8vo. 23 cm. Pp. 224. Orig. black cloth stamped in yellow. Spine faded.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, p. 213.

 

1933

ROSENFELD (Semjon) Russland vor dem Sturm. Aus dem Russischen ubertragen von Werner Bergengruen. Der Bucherkreis, Berlin, 1933. 8vo. 19 cm. Pp. 231 + adverts. Orig. cloth.

‘Einbandentwurf und Typographie: Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, p. 207.

 

1940

[Exhibition catalogue] Die Erfindung Gutenbergs. Ausstellung im Gewerbemuseum Basel…vom 15. Dezember 1940 bis zum 16. Februar 1941. Benno Schwabe, Basel, [1940]. 8vo. 23 cm. Pp. 84. Tipped-in plates. Later cloth. JT lettered front wrapper bound in.

‘Die Schriftzeichnung fur den Umschlag von Jan Tschichold.’

Burke, p. 289.

 

1941

TSCHICHOLD (Jan) Geschichte der Schrift in Bildern. Holbein, Basel, 1941. First edition. Sm. 4to. 26 cm. Pp. 72. Outer leaves spotted. Orig. boards, d.w.

‘Satzanordnung, Einband und Schutzumschlag: Jan Tschichold.’

NLS 93; Burke, p. 288.

 

1942

FORCART-RESPINGER (E.) Basel und das Seidenband. Birkhauser, Basel, 1942. Sm. 4to. 26 cm. Pp. 127. Colour costume plates. Fine monochrome illusts. Orig. boards. Slightly frayed d.w.

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KOELNER (Paul) Basler Zunfttherrlichkeit. Ein Bilderbuch der Zunfte und Gesellschaften. Birkhauser, Basel, 1942. 8vo. 25 cm. Pp. 240. Plates, some in colour. Orig. qtr. cloth, boards. D.w.

‘Buchhausstattung: Jan Tschichold.’

 

KOELNER (Paul) Basler Zunftherrlichkeit. Ein Bilderbuch der Zunfte und Gesellschaften. Birkhauser, Basel, 1942. 8vo. 25 cm. Pp. 240. Orig. qtr. cloth, printed boards. Slightly frayed d.w.

‘Buchausstattlung: Jan Tschichold.’

 

TSCHICHOLD (Jan) Schriftkunde, Schreibubungen und Skizzierin fur Setzer. Benno Schwabe, Basel, 1942. First edition. 8vo. Pp. 79. Orig. boards.

Burke p. 195

 

1944

ERASMUS Von Rotterdam, Das Lob der Torheit. Birkhauser, Basel, 1944. Sm. 8vo. 17 cm. Pp. 214. Orig. cloth.

‘Satzanordnung und Einbandwentwurf von Jan Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 99, 100; NLS 148.

 

 Hans Holbeins des Jungern Bilder zum Alten Testament. Herausgegeben…von Maria Netter. Birkhauser, Basel, 1944. 8vo. 21 cm. Pp. 126. Reproductions of wood-engravings. Orig. boards. Slightly worn d.w. Card slipcase.

‘Satzanordnung von Jan Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 93; NLS 147.

 

1945

FIELDING (Henry) Das Leben des Mr. Jonathan Wild, des Grossen. Verlag Birkhauser, Basel, 1945. Sm. 8vo. 18 cm. Pp. 335. Orig. cloth. Slightly frayed d.w. Sammlung Birkhauser vol. 8.

NLS 157.

 

Hafis. Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte. Birkhauser, Basel, 1945. Sm. 8vo. 17 cm. Pp. 219. Orig. semi-stiff boards. D.w. (slightly worn). Sammlung Birkhauser vol. 7.

‘Herausgegeben und durchgesehen von Jan Tschichold.’

L & W pl. 97.

 

1946

KOELNER (Paul) Die Feuerschutzen-Gesellschaft zu Basel. Birkhauser, Basel, 1946. Sm. 4to. 26 cm. Pp. 383. Tipped-in colour plates. Illusts. Orig. cloth.

‘Besondern Dank…Jan Tschichold fur die Uberwachung der Buchausstattung.’

 

SILENS (Constantin) Irrweg und Umkehr. Betrachtungen uber das Schicksal Deutschlands. Birkhauser, Basel, 1946. 8vo. 22 cm. Pp. 328. Orig. printed boards, d.w.

L & W pl. 102; NLS 151.

 

1947

MORE (Thomas) Utopia. Birkhauser, Basel, 1947. Sm. 8vo. 17 cm. Pp. 205. Orig. semi-stiff boards. D.w. (slightly worn). Sammlung Birkhauser vol. 11.

‘Satzanordnung von Jan Tschichold.’

NLS 158.

 

1951

TSCHICHOLD (Jan) Schriftkunde, Schreibubungen und Skizzierin fur Setzer. [2^nd ed.] Tempelhof, Berlin, 1951. 8vo. Pp. 79. Orig. qtr. cloth, blind-stamped boards. Slightly worn d.w.

L & W pl. 133; NLS 102.

 

1952

WIELAND (Christoph Martin) Geschichte des Prinzen Biribinker. Birkhauser, Basel. 1952. 500 copies. This 228, 238/250. Sm. 8vo. 17 cm. Pp. 154. Colour illusts. Pink silk boards. Card slipcase. Two copies.

‘Buchgrosse, Satz und Einband wurden Jan Tschichold entworfen.’

NLS 168.

 

1954

STERNE (Laurence) Yoricks empfindsame Reise durch Frankreich und Italien. Birkhauser, Basel, 1954. Sm. 8vo. 16 cm. Pp. 281. Orig. decorative boards, d.w. Basler Drucke, vol. 4. 850 numbered copies.

‘Buchgrosse, Satz und Einband wurden von Jan Tschichold entworfen.’

L & W pl. 89; NLS 170.

 

1957

Schonste liebe mich. Deutsche Liebesgedichte aus dem Barock und dem Rokoko. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg, 1957. Sm. 8vo. 17 cm. Pp. 94. Eight colour plates of lace valentines. Orig. boards.

Edited and designed by Tschichold.

NLS 122.

 

1962

TSCHICHOLD (Jan) Willkurfreie Massverhaltnisse der Buchseite und des Satzspiegels. Uberreicht von der Papierhandelsgesellschaft Bucherer, Kurrus & Co., Basel, 1962. 8vo. 22 cm. Pp. 32. 1600 copies for private distribution. Wrappers. Sewn.

L & W pl. 150; NLS 110.

 

1971

VON SICHOWSKY (Richard) & Hermann TIEMANN, Eds. Typographie und Bibliophilie. Aufsatze und Vortrage uber die Kunst des Buchdrucks aus zwei Jahrhunderten. Maximilian-Gesellschaft, Hamburg, 1971. 4to. 27 cm. Pp. 272. Orig. printed boards. Signed presentation inscription from Jan Tschichold to John Dreyfus.

JT advised on the choice of texts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tints

[TREBLE (Phil)] Tints. Bishop Burton: Muttons & Nuts, 2024. [One of 20 copies printed]. 8vo. 208 x 130 mm. Pp. [16]. Cloth. New. £100 SOLD

‘For me, mixing small quantities of ink for relief printing has often produced inconsistent tints across print runs, and I end up wasting time and resources. This is a book showing a selection of eight ink colours, from Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies, and how to tint them using weighed-out ink in ratios of transparent white to base colour. I originally intended this to be a reference for myself but thought I would offer a few copies to others. The ratios shown are base colour, 3/1, 10/1, 30/1, 100/1 and 200/1. The sixteen page book is printed letterpress in 8 and 11pt Monotype Grotesque with 36pt square border units and bound in white Windsor book cloth with a letterpress printed title from laser engraved MDF in a split fountain gradient.’ (From the printer’s website)

WOLPE (Berthold) Some book decorations by Berthold Wolpe. Oxford: S. P. Tuohy in association with The Perpetua Press, 2018. 250 copies printed in Monotype Bell on Zerkall mouldmade paper. Crown octavo, 187 x 122 mm. Pp. xiii, [25]. 28 plates, one folding, most from the orig. zinc line blocks. Printed by the Evergreen Press and bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. Red cloth. Gilt titles in Albertus Light. New. £35

Printed letterpress from the original process line blocks, discovered in the typographic collections of Wolpe's friend Vivian Ridler, used for the illustrations to Walter de la Mare, Collected Poems, 1942, and F. Le Mesurier, Sauces, French and English, 1947. With notes and an introduction by Steven Tuohy.

Stempel

STEMPEL (D.) [Typefounders] Die Hauptprobe der Schriftgiesserei und Messinglinienfabrik D. Stempel. Frankfurt a. Main: [1927].

Thick 4to. 31 cm. Pp. xxviii, 1198 (irregularly paginated, with several alphabetical sub-series, 68a-q, etc.). Printed in black, gold and spot colours. Orig. half parchment, blue cloth sides, by the August Osterrieth bindery. Some minor marks to lower board but still an exceptionally well-preserved copy of this gargantuan type specimen published to celebrate the firm's thirtieth anniversary in 1925, but not finished until 1927. 'It is probably the most comprehensive collection of type faces, ornaments and specimen settings ever presented by a single company. At the same time, this vast volume is a museum of the typographical practice of the early twentieth century.' (Stempel, Chronik der Schriftgiesserei, 1955). Presentation bookplate. (NB 7.42 kg unpacked.) SOLD

Merry Christmas

MARTI (Walter) Typographie. Lucerne: Walter Marti, 1957. 4to. 30 cm. Pp. 134. Striking album of designs for a variety of mostly ephemeral printed matter, making extensive use of colour, geometric form, etc. Orig. printed boards. Wire spiral binding. A fine copy. SOLD

Fine Press Book Fair, 9-10 December, Oxford

 

F.H.Ernst Schneidler (1882-1956), Der Wassermann

Der Wassermann. Studienblätter für Büchermacher. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann Verlag, [1945]. Edition of about 70 copies. Small folio. 4 vols. Loose bifoliums (largely), some in gatherings. Pp. 168; [iv], 156; 180; [iv], 144. Orig. cloth and board portfolios (worn but sound). Printed labels. A good set. Scarce. SOLD

Schneidler’s unfinished master-work – except for vol. 3, a collection of fragments, really - consists largely of illustrative material for a textbook of the graphic arts programme he taught and directed (with various specialist departmental heads) at the Stuttgart state academy of applied arts between the two world wars (and for a short time after 1946). The work is assembled mainly from sheets printed there between about 1925 and 1934. (Volume 3 appeared separately in 1934 but the work was not published as a whole until 1945.)

The material is gathered by subject. Vol. 1 consists mainly of studies in book typography; vol. 2 covers non-typographic lettering; vol. 3 is more focused and consists of designs for an edition of Horace: it is the only part of the work considered to have been completed; vol. 4 is chiefly devoted to illustration and ornament, with some packaging design.

The title is best translated as 'the water-carrier' and refers to the astrological sign of Aquarius whose characteristic personality traits Schneidler believed should be cultivated by the graphic arts student.

A small number of presentation copies of this work contain some extra sheets. This copy corresponds in extent to the Newberry Library copy described by Georgianna Greenwood below and was bought from Hoffmann at about the same time, in the early 1950s (Hoffmann’s original invoice is present). Fewer than a dozen copies of Der Wassermann can be located in European and North American institutional libraries and there seems to be only one in the UK, in Cambridge University Library.

Schneidler was the designer of the script typeface Legende and his powerful calligraphy provides some of the strongest material in Der Wassermann. More generally, the work reflects a continuing conservative tradition of graphic arts training (the ‘Stuttgart school’) and its negotiation with the forces of modernism.

Schneidler left a large body of graphic and fine artwork but he is perhaps best known as a teacher. Among his many notable students were Walter Brudi, Eric Carle, Albert Kapr, Imre Reiner and Georg Trump.

 

SOURCES

Georgianna Greenwood, ‘Der Wassermann by F.H. Ernst Schneidler, an appreciation’, in Alphabet: the journal of the friends of calligraphy, 26:1, Fall 2000. 32pp, with 31 illustrations selected by Paul Shaw.

Sandra Lauenstein, ‘Schindler’s opus magnum’, pp. 147ff, in Buch Kunst Schrift F.H. Ernst Schneidler, ed. by Nils Buttner et al., Stuttgart, 2013.

Der Wassermann is the subject of a small, Grolier Club online exhibition, with brief notes by Jerry Kelly:

grolierclub.omeka.net/items/show389

The first article in the first number (1949) of Herbert Spencer’s modernist periodical Typographica is devoted to Schneidler’s experimental calligraphy, though the examples reproduced there are more recent than those in Der Wassermann which curiously goes unnoticed in G. K. Schauer’s (somewhat opaque) accompanying text.