London Philharmonic Orchestra – The Planets by Gustav Holst album art
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Obelisk originated at the Blackfriars Type Foundry in London sometime before 1910. Its forms for h m n with the horizontal exit stroke might have been inspired by a similar face shown by Farmer in 1896 as Vogue. Stephenson Blake in England carried it under the name Hogarth as early as 1897. Photoscript revived Obelisk for phototypesetting sometime between 1968 and 1970.
Here it can be seen in use for a recording of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, sandwiched between two unrelated pieces by Sibelius, and reissued in 1971 by British budget label Golden Hours. The cover photo is a stock moonscape from NASA. The Moon isn’t a planet, of course, but then again, budgets are budgets.
When the reissue got reissued by Everest Records, the two embracing Sibelius tracks were dropped, but the cover design retained. The reference on the cover was simply blacked out. It’s still visible in some printings.
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