Neue Schriftblätter (Georg Lepple)

These lettering sheets featuring hand-drawn alphabets and practical applications are part of a long tradition of forms made for stealing and adapting. They show ideal roman and blackletter forms (as idealized by Georg Lepple) and then shows them in use in a variety of make-believe scenarios. With eight alphabets begging to be digitized—for what purpose, we don’t know, but you can worry about that later. WorldCat shows only two copies in Rhode Island (weirdly) and one at Letterform Archive and nowhere else in the United States. Exceedingly rare.