Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig (Fischer)
Contributed by Indra Kupferschmid on Mar 24th, 2013. Artwork published in
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Speaking of Caslon Italics – here’s a book cover with spacing of the other extreme: Stefan Zweig’s “The Royal Game” in the German Fischer Taschenbuch edition from the tight-and-touching 1980s. (The omitted i-tittle in the Fischer logo is an interesting trick.) Elsner + Flake’s Caslon 540 comes closest.
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In addition to the general fashion of the times, the excessively tight spacing here might also have been motivated by the wish to make a (partly) connected script out of an italic. It hardly ever works.