Figure 92

Typographical Ornaments, probably from the Endters Printing-house, Nuremberg

From Ernesti’s Die Wol-eingerichtete Buchdruckerey

1721

J. H. G. Ernesti’s book Die Wol-eingerichtete Buchdruckerey, a treatise on printing, published at Nuremberg by the heirs of Johann Andrea Endters—a well-known “printing family”—in 1733.… At the end of the book is a garden of the type-flowers or “Röslein,” which displays many of the good old traditional patterns which have never been bettered

See chapter 12