(x) Floral woodblock type used on Penguin Great Ideas series 3 No 7 - not a font {Jan, Nick Curtis}

manofscience20 July 2010 · 02:16

Hi,
Anyone ID this woodblock type used by David Pearson on the cover of a Penguin Great Ideas book: 'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
http://www.davidpearsondesign.com/greatideasthree.html

It may well not be a digital typeface but a scan/treatment of some original woodblock designs.
Cheers,
H

It may well be illustration/lettering.

I doubt that this has been digitized; however, you can find many similar alphabets here...

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