Abel Buell of Connecticut:  Silversmith, Type Found & Engraver

Abel Buell of Connecticut: Silversmith, Type Found & Engraver

Willard A. Lockwood, 1958

Description

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Willard A. Lockwood
Author
Lawrence C. Wroth
Trim size
6 x 9.25 inches; Bulk: 0.5 inches
Pages
120 overall plus 9 illustrations (3 folding)
Price
$5.00
Typefaces
11/14 Linotype Baskerville (type), 18, 24, 30, 36 Monotype Baskerville; 14 Linotype Baskerville (display)
Compositor
Connecticut Printers, Inc. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard division)
Plate maker
The Meriden Gravure Company
Printer
Connecticut Printers, Inc. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard division) (letterpress); The Meriden Gravure Company (offset)
Printing methods
letterpress printed from the slugs (plates), letterpress (text), offset (illustrations, albumen plates)
Papers
Letterpress: Mead’s 25 x 38 inches —70 Suede Book Laid white, offset: Lee’s 22 x 29 inches —54 wove ivory, basis 80
Paper supplies
Rourke-Eno Paper Co., Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp.
Binder
Russell-Rutter Company\, Inc.
Binding
Holliston’s Aldine Linen Finish 11275 black, over .088 binders boards, shelfback stamped in bright aluminum foil, front in blind, illustrations inserted as wraps, gray top stain
Endpapers
White 80-lb.
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
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