The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio
Carl Purington Rollins, New York, New York, 1942
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Carl Purington Rollins
- Authors
- Cyril Stanley Smith (introduction and notes), Martha Teach Gnudi (introduction and notes)
- Translators
- Cyril Stanley Smith, Martha Teach Gnudi
- Translations
- from the Italian
- Size
- 7.5 x 10.5 inches
- Pages
- xxvi, 476
- Quantity printed
- 1,000
- Price
- $5.00
- Typefaces
- English Monotype Bembo, 12 point, 2 point leading, English Monotype Bembo (title page), 30 x 46 picas
- Compositor
- The Printing-Office of the Yale University Press
- Printers
- The Printing-Office of the Yale University Press (letterpress), Stoddard Engraving Company (illustrations)
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Illustrations
- line engravings made from original illustrations in 1590 edition
- Paper
- Strathmore Book, ivory antique, sub. 70
- Binder
- George McKibbin & Son
- Binding
- Smyth sewn, bound between boards covered with Holliston Record Buckram English finish No. 17107, Chatham paper (on backbone), cloth label
- Stamping
- genuine gold leaf (on label)
- Publisher
- The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
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