[Original Walter Tiemann lettering for Das Dekameron]

It’s 1906. A young Walter Tiemann has been asked to update the lettering he did for an earlier edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Das Dekameron—which you totally love. (Das Dekameron, we mean. Not Tiemann’s lettering. You only just learned that this celebrated designer did the lettering and borders for the edition.) So Tiemann draws the letters anew and pastes them over a page from the earlier printing. Later, in 1909, there’s another edition with a new translation with updated details, so he writes it all out again. Why are we telling you this? Because what we have here is the original lettering Tiemann made for these books—along with the 3-volume 1906 edition. So you get the Before and the After and the Handwork of the designer of these types.