Any ideas what this typeface might be? It is from the cover of a book about light installations in Paris from the fist half of the 20th century.
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deco french
I think it is Literaturnaya.
From Wikipedia: “Designed at Poligraphmashat the end of the 1930s by Anatolii Shchukin the font was based on Hermann Berthold's Latinskaya (St. Petersburg, 1901), a version of Lateinisch for Russia, also developed at the Berthold foundry (Berlin, 1899).”
See this post: http://typophile.com/node/4572
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