I am looking to identify a typeface (or possibly to the practiced eye several) from a 1855 edition of Goethe's Faust.

The book publisher was originally J. G. Cotta'ſcher Verlag (Buchdruckerei der J. G. Cotta'ſchen Buchhandlung in Stuttgart und Augsburg). I contacted their successor company and they haven't got a clue as to what typeface was used.

The title page of the book appears to use several typefaces, but I don't care too much about that aspect. More important is the main text, of which I am giving an excerpt.

The one thing that I noticed is that Faust was written - depending on where it appears - as Fauſt and Faust (long and short s respectively).

The closest match I have found so far was Fette Unz Fraktur by Peter Wiegel, except that I'd need to normal (non-bold) variant of the typeface along with the semi-bold and bold one. The main text of course uses the normal variant throughout.

I am looking for a digital font for use with LuaLaTeX, preferably one that provides the standard ligatures such as ck, fi ... and it would be fine if it's a commercial font, but free (even open source) would be preferred.

 

Thank you in advance for any input you can provide.

There may be something that would work for you on these webpage or here. 

Pretty close to Fraktur from Bitstream: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/fraktur/

13 hours ago, Hvergelmir said:

I'd need to normal (non-bold) variant of the typeface along with the semi-bold and bold one.

That would greatly restrict the chance of finding an exact digital match (if it even exists).

In any case, it seems to be a version of Normal-Fraktur, “A standard design that emerged in the 19th century.”

13 hours ago, Hvergelmir said:

preferably one that provides the standard ligatures such as ck, fi

Buchfraktur should cover all the requirements.

download at MyFonts

 

Thank you very much for your replies. Buchfraktur does indeed seem to be a close match.