Art Monograms and Lettering

for the use of Engravers, Artists, Designers, and Art Workmen

by J.M. Bergling 

Ninth edition.  Chicago:  J.M. Bergling, 1919  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Black cloth covers with blind tooled frame and gilt title. 
• Boards show some smudges, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed, with exposed board.  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text and is bright with chipped, frayed ends.
• Binding is strong.  
• Pastedowns and feps are tanned. 
• Illustrations, black line figures, are bright and clear.  
• Interior is uniformly tanned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• PS2026.0326

64 pages. 7.5 x 10.5 inches

Ninth Edition.  Publisher's black cloth with gilt title.  Sixty-four pages of monograms and letters in a wide variety of styles and configurations.  Boards show some age and smudges from usage.  Interior is uniformly tanned, unmarked.  A photographic portrait of J.M. Bergling with his daughter Mildred is on the reverse of the second title page.  Condition is overall Very Good.  Scarce in commerce in these early editions. 

John Mauritz Bergling (1866-1933) was a Swedish-born American lettering artist.  He created thousands of letter styles, signets, monograms, ciphers, and other designs, but he was not a typographer, as one would imagine.  Instead, he was a jewelry engraver who worked for some of the leading jewelry companies of his time, hand-etching on the surface of each piece.  From the earliest years of his career, Bergling saved his design sketches and letterform drawings, and in 1908 he published his first book, Art Monograms and Lettering.  Bergling's hope was that his little book, with more than 300 illustrations, would help other etchers, engravers, and artisans at their craft.

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