Ship of Fools, An Original Leaf from the First Edition of Alexander Barclay’s English translation of Sebastian Brant’s “Ship of Fools,” printed by Richard Pynson in 1509
Edward Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco, California, 1939
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1940)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Edward Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn
- Illustrations
- Line engravings with color blocks
- Author
- James D. Hart (essay)
- Trim size
- 9 x 12 inches
- Pages
- 20
- Quantity printed
- Limited edition, 260 copies
- Price
- $6.00
- Typefaces
- Goudy Deepdene Text 24 point, Type Measure: 25 x 44 picas
- Compositor
- The Grabhorn Press
- Printers
- The Grabhorn Press, Salter Brothers (illustrations)
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Paper
- Hurlbut’s Cragbourn, Gray, Substance 80
- Binder
- The Grabhorn Press
- Binding
- Boards, with printed paper sides, cloth back with printed paper label on backbone
- Endpapers
- same as text
- Publisher
- David Magee
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