Excellent day at work. I took 13 students to Krefeld’s Kaiser Wilhelm Museum to look at items from Otto Eckmann’s Nachlass. Here are four images. You get the idea!

Two typefoundry advertisements from the 1925 _Gutenberg-Festschrift_ (you could call that book the “pilot issue” of the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft’s _Gutenberg-Jahrbuch_). One ad is composed with Sebaldus-Gotisch, the other with the Tiemann-Gotisch typeface. Is this just a Zeitgeist thing or were both companies trying to present customers with exactly the same image?

It is one of the velum-printed editions!
Last week, I was briefly in Berlin and finally swung by the Staatsbibliothek’s new exhibition space inside the Unter den Linden branch. Visiting the exhibition is free for everyone. If you go through the room, you’ll find stairs leading to the Schatzkammer in a basement. And there it is: the library’s Gutenberg Bible (alongside fabulous manuscripts from around the world).

My son can do the grocery shopping for our family on his own now, it seems!