Credits

Designer

P.J. Conkwright

Wood engraving

Alexander Anderson

Trim size

8.5 x 11 inches; Bulk: 1 inch

Pages

372 (316 text; 56 reproductions)

Quantity printed

600

Price

$15.00

Typefaces

11/15 Linotype Caledonia (single column), 9/10 Linotype Monticello (double column)(text), 30 ATF Bulmer, 14, 16 Linotype Baskerville, 10 Linotype Monticello (display)

Compositor

Princeton University Press

Printer

Princeton University Press (letterpress); The Meriden Gravure Company (offset)

Printing methods

Text in letterpress (printed from the slugs) albumen, black only (three-color title page); reproductions in offset, black only

Illustrations

reproductions of 124 early American illustrations, text decorated with vignettes reproduced from wood engravings reproduced mostly in fine line, a few halftones (300 screen)

Paper

Letterpress: Warren’s 35 x 45 inches —116 Olde Style Wove white, basis 60 offset: Lee’s 35 x 45 inches —133 Lee Offset white, basis 80

Paper supplies

Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp., Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons

Binder

J.C. Valentine Company

Binding materials

Joanna Western’s Duro Buckram Impreglin Linen Finish 9511 chocolate over .095 binders boards, Paper Corporation of United States

Stamping

shelfback and front stamped with blind panels, then with genuine gold foil

Endpapers

New York & Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Lining Gray, 80-lb.; illustrations inserted as six signatures; gray top stain

Publisher

Princeton University Press