I have Nick, but I trust a community of type professionals over Google's visible-because-people-clicked-it methodology.

James, the first Google link that comes up is to MyFonts, where you can see that P22 and Monotype both publish David Siegel's Eaglefeather, a script typeface based on Wright's lettering. Isn't that exactly what you were looking for, and surely not a "tall order"?

My suggestion is to track down a publication he worked on call "The House Beautiful", and see where that leads you.

Cheers!

P22 has four different Frank Lloyd Wright fonts, as you can see here under FLLW: http://www.p22.com/products/sitemap.html

I'm kind of doubtful that that lower case in Eaglefeather is Frank Lloyd Wright's. If you do all caps it looks more like architect writing...

That one's really nice, Paul. Full of flavor, and you captured it in the digital. It speaks so strongly of Wright and early 20th century American design.

The sample very closely matches the typeface Salisbury from the R. H. Stevens & Co. Ltd. foundry of London, at least according to Printing Types of the World. The closest "modern-day" equivalent would be Bookman Oldstyle...

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/bookman-old-style/bookman-old-style/

ON>...closely matches the typeface Salisbury from the R. H. Stevens & Co. Ltd.

But it exactly matches something else from 1896 or so, made in the US.

BV> :) this was before all caps turned into shouting, or FLW was a big-name architect.

Cheers!

Bert — To be fair, we can’t be sure whether the type for The House Beautiful was spec’ed by FLW or by his partner in this venture, William Herman Winslow, who owned the private press. FLW designed the page schemes and ornamentation, obviously. But he may not have been directly involved in the composition of the text. And the all-caps was not out of keeping with the small, private, vanity press style of the day (ca. 1896–7).

Nick — I don’t know that we [I did some of the research on this for DB, including those photos] ever positively nailed the type. Without any lowercase, it’s a little tricky. But my conclusion was either Custer from Western Type Foundry (out of Chicago, near to where this was printed) or Cushing No. 2 from ATF (which also had a Chicago office).

MacGrew states that Custer was a copy of Cushing No. 2 (not to be confused with Cushing Oldstyle or Cushing Antique). Both were precursors to some of the later Bookman series.

I assume this is primarily a matter of display, in which case being more "typographic" is not necessarily the thing.

If you want it too look like Wright's lettering on architectural drawings, then I suppose all caps of Eagle Feather will work.

If you want hand writing, then the eccentric and period Midway may work in giving it a unique flavor.

The low contrast all caps may be authentic, but they don't say "Frank Lloyd Wright" to me.

Incidentally, I don't think Wright's decoration and writing were his strong suit in any case. In general it's his awesome interior spaces. For decoration, I much prefer his teacher, Louis Sullivan.

Bill> In general it's his awesome interior spaces. For decoration, I much prefer his teacher, Louis Sullivan.

I've slept in both, (it's a Wisconsin thing to do), and I can tell you that the teacher was, as you say, into awesome interior space, while the student was more concerned about how the awesome interior spaces related to the awesome exterior spaces. I think that marks their major difference though I'm hardly an architectural critic.

Cheers!

No, it was written by William C. Gannet. And I think it was a previously published work; there are probably other editions. This Auvergne Press edition was just a small private press venture, an exercise in one vision for Arts & Crafts–style harmony between content and container.

If your library has a copy of the FLW-designed Auvergne edition, I’m going to bet it’s a facsimile, since there were only 90 copies printed and only a dozen whose whereabouts are known (and I don’t think Yale has one — that’s where you are, right?).

There’s a 1963 facsimile that’s supposed to be quite good. And a 1996 one that’s supposedly fair. Probably plenty good enough for your purposes.

Make sure that your library’s copy is not the original James H. West Co. edition (not designed by FLW). You’ll be disappointed.

Hmm. Sorry, must’ve gotten confused. There’s someone around here who is (was?) at Yale. I saw the New Haven and just jumped to a conclusion.

Here’s a web page with information about various editions of FLW’s House Beautiful.

No. 39 on that list, in the Chapin Library collection, is the one from which DB’s image, above, was taken.

Good luck in your search.