American Board of Missions Almanac 1887 cover
Contributed by Eva Silvertant on Oct 4th, 2022. Artwork published in
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Almanac for the year 1887, issued by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (est. 1810).
The typeface featured is Mother Hubbard (c. 1885), cut by John F. Cumming (b. 1852).
Lovely to see that Art Nouveau flat-topped 8!
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The archive of the Digital Library for International Research offers a digitized copy of the 1898 edition of this almanac: released 11 years after the edition shown above. The cover re-uses the design from 1887, but with an updated publication year, and produced “low budget”, with only two colors.
Nice addition, Matthijs! Also no money for decorative dots in C and D anymore, it seems.
I saw! I was curious if I might find the covers from other years, and post them together—but no luck. I’m assuming just the two have been digitized.
I just found Mother Hubbard presented as ‘Latin Ornamented’ in “Harrild and Sons’ New & Abridged Specimens of Wood-Letter, Corners, Borders, &ca.” (ca. 1890).
Source: Letterform Archive
Source: Letterform Archive
Good eye, Eva! Added to the typeface bio for Mother Hubbard.