[DCRM-L] Decorative fonts

[Matthew C. Haugen]

Perhaps Ornate types or Display types, from the Type Evidence thesaurus?

http://rbms.info/vocabularies/type/tr52.htm

http://rbms.info/vocabularies/type/tr71.htm

Matt

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Cawelti, Andrea <cawelti at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Does anyone have a "go-to" genre heading for printed material sporting
> unusually splendid decorative fonts?  I'm particularly thinking of the
> amazing fonts used on some engraved Johann Strauss title pages, but have
> seen other title pages I'd like to find again, particularly in middle and
> later 19th cen. imprints.  Any suggestions from our collective wisdom?
> Grateful thanks,
> andrea
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> (Ms.) Andrea Cawelti
> Ward Music Cataloger
> Houghton Library
> Harvard University
> Cambridge, MA  02138
>
> Phone: (617) 495-8060
> FAX: (617) 495-1376
> E-mail: cawelti at fas.harvard.edu
>
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Matthew C. Haugen
Rare Book Cataloger
102 Butler Library
Columbia University Libraries
E-mail: matthew.haugen at columbia.edu
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