[DCRM-L] Decorative fonts

[Cawelti, Andrea]

Looks like "Ornate types" is indeed just the ticket, and my grateful thanks to all who helped,
andrea

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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
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