John Mauritz Bergling, Swedish-born American lettering artist,
1866–1933 [Obit].
Author of Art Monograms and
Lettering, Ornamental Designs and
Illustrations, and Heraldic
Designs and Engravings (1913). His Art Alphabets
and Lettering was first published in 1914 and expanded
through three subsequent editions, culminating in an enlarged
fourth edition in 1923. [Gurney]
U&lc Vol. 12
No. 4 (1986) has a feature about
Bergling by Lee Sinoff.
Some of the alphabets shown by Bergling appear to be derived
from earlier works by others, incl. from a book by F.
Schweimanns and Fr. Ad. Becker from c.1902 (compare for example
these alphabets:
Bergling vs.
Becker,
Bergling vs.
Schweimanns,
Bergling vs.
Schweimanns,
Bergling vs.
Schweimanns,
Bergling vs.
Schweimanns), or from typefaces (cf.
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John Mauritz Bergling, Swedish-born American lettering artist, 1866–1933 [Obit]. Author of Art Monograms and Lettering, Ornamental Designs and Illustrations, and Heraldic Designs and Engravings (1913). His Art Alphabets and Lettering was first published in 1914 and expanded through three subsequent editions, culminating in an enlarged fourth edition in 1923. [Gurney] U&lc Vol. 12 No. 4 (1986) has a feature about Bergling by Lee Sinoff.
Some of the alphabets shown by Bergling appear to be derived from earlier works by others, incl. from a book by F. Schweimanns and Fr. Ad. Becker from c.1902 (compare for example these alphabets: Bergling vs. Becker, Bergling vs. Schweimanns, Bergling vs. Schweimanns, Bergling vs. Schweimanns, Bergling vs. Schweimanns), or from typefaces (cf. Bergling vs. Ridingerschrift).