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Established in 1867, the D.A. Sanborn National Insurance Diagram Bureau compiled and published city maps for the fire insurance industry for more than a hundred years. The attention to detail coming out of that Manhattan office went far beyond city blocks and plots of land, however. Take a close look at the typography and overall design aesthetic of these amazing title pages. Many more examples here. Absolutely beautiful.
Via BibliOdyssey.
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Beautiful, but not exactly legable.
Posted by: Camera.Ed | February 19, 2011 at 09:11 PM
these are lovely. i am blown away by the details. i'm off to check out the rest of the collection!
Posted by: elissa, ebb & flow | February 23, 2011 at 05:53 PM
They actually seemed to be ahead of their time. Look at how much dimension they have. Pretty cool!
Posted by: Darla Dixon | March 02, 2011 at 07:22 PM