Maelstrom covers
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Maelstrom is an American quarterly periodical published by Fred R. Fry II. The covers feature 8th and 9th Centuries, 16th Century, and Henry the Eighth, alphabet samples published in The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediaeval by engraver Freeman Gage Delamotte in 1858.
The decorative quality of these typefaces is emphasized by the layout, which frames the central illustration with text. Repeated three times on the cover, the title presents a unique display with each iteration, playing with text alignments, type combinations, and reading orientations. Complementing this design, the secondary information is set in a yet unidentified typewriter typeface – possibly an Olympia model.
Some of the Maelstrom issues are accessible on JSTOR.
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