Persönliches und Sachliches by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke
A sample of Ehmcke Elzevir in use for the title of Der Mythus von Orient und Occident (Beck, 1926)
Persönliches und Sachliches is a retrospective book on 25 years of Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke’s career, with collected essays and work samples. It was published by Verlag Hermann Reckendorf, on the occasion of Ehmcke’s 50th birthday. Ehmcke (1878–1965) was a German graphic designer, typographer, and illustrator. The entire book is set in Ehmcke Elzevir, a typeface he designed in 1924, which was published by the Ludwig Wagner foundry in 1927.
Page with an essay by Ehmcke
A. Bousset’s photo of a room in the Cultural History Department at the Pressa fair in Cologne, 1928, showing the “Historical Development of Occidental Letterforms”
Cover with Ehmcke’s signature
