Paul Badura-Skoda – Sonata in A Major, Sonata in B Flat Major by Franz Schubert album art
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Queen Victoria is a typeface shown by Photo-Lettering in their 1950 catalog. The ornate concave caps with trifurcated serifs and white contour and close shade appear to be based on an alphabet drawn and engraved by Jules Girault and reproduced in his Album graphique from 1867. Photo-Lettering added a solid variant named Grand Old Coach. Much later, Solotype carried it under the name Carillon Condensed. There are digitizations as Trefoil Capitals (Paul Lloyd, 2002) and Purcell (Scriptorium, 2010?).
On the cover of this 1956 record with two Schubert sonatas performed by Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda (1927–2019), Queen Victoria is paired with a version of Engravers Roman.
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The version written and engraved by Jules Girault, as the third of three “alphabets composed after designs from the XI., XII., and XVI. centuries” reproduced in his Album graphique from 1867. PLINC adopted the second alphabet for phototype as Curfew Initials.
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