Fleischmann on Punchcutting bramdedoes Seventeen of those alphabets are

Seventeen of those alphabets are reproduced in this later book by Max Körner

but there are 117 leaves of them

(A puppeteering graphic designer

So these were special sorts

Each letter is about two-and-an-eighth-inches-tall and the whole is a lovely example of the sign-writer’s art even if it doesn’t say anything in particular

Fleischmann on Punchcutting bramdedoes Seventeen of those alphabets areThis 1994 publication is a significant piece of typographic detective work. It centers on a 1766 manuscript discovered by scholar Frans A. Janssen, which provides a rare first person technical account of the art of punchcutting. Janssen concludes the text was written by the legendary German born punchcutter Johann Michael Fleischman. The content is notable for its vigorous defense of counter punches and its sharp, professional sniping at Fleischmans