Figure 95
Schwabacher and Fraktur: Trattner’s Abdruck dererjenigen Deutschen Schriften, etc., Vienna
From a copy in the Library of the American Type Founders Company, Jersey City, New Jersey (facsimile), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (scan)
1760
The specimen of Johann Thomas Trattner of Vienna may properly come under German specimen-books of this period. Its various parts devoted to roman, German, and exotic types and ornaments were published in 1759 and 1760.… To German text types some ornamented letters add a touch of horror hitherto unachieved by any Teutonic type-cutter; but the entire vulgarity of the fraktur displayed is relieved by some very good schwabacher fonts.…We reproduce a page of schwabacher and fraktur, the latter in the condensed form alluded to…