I don’t wanna say it ... no ... no ... Trajan.

Nope, not Trajan. The R is not right and the bowls don’t look right either.

Michael

edit: sorry, I thought he/she was looking for an ID.

Michael. Sure Trajan’s not a match because (like Mike said) the sample is handdrawn. He was asking for something similar.

I just looked at it quickly Jan... see edited post.

There are plenty out there just look for tapered Romans... Michaelangelo (maybe too light for you), Schneider Antiqua, Weiss, Sabon, Poppl Pontifex &c yes Jan is right Trajan

Michael

I was cooking dinner for my son and was in between the studio and the kitchen. It was a drive by...

Sorry Jan and Mike.

Michael

Hey, happens. Nobody got hurt ;-)

Also often overlooked is Paul Shaw’s Baroque Set backed with loads of research from his travels in Italy.

Oswald Spengler was a very famous political author in Germany,
born 1880 and 1936 he passed the way.

“Der Untergang des Abendlandes” (engish title: Decline Of The West)
was, what you would call, a bestseller. First edition 1919, last one
anywhere in the 30ies. (And some more after Germanys surrender ’45).

I know all his books and hang me, but I am sure:
This title shown in the picture, is a fake.
The german word “Untergang” is written with an U at the beginning.
Yes, sometimes they tried to give a title a kind of latin touch,
but I do not believe to the V instead of the U in the 1920ies.
Another thing are the different capital R at the end of the lines.
I do not believe its a standard lead letter font with three versions
in it.

I guess its changed later electronically.
The copyright of UDA was (or better: is) at Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhaltung, Munich. The shown title does not fit to them.

Georg
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„Ich bin ein Preuße, kennt Ihr meine Farben...“

Since this is hand-drawn, all we can do is look for something similar. My suggestion is an old Image Club/VCG font with very small serifs called Basilea. The sample is from the Serif Font ID Guide.

- Mike Yanega