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Description
In this satirical novel, first published in 1787 in England and now published for the first time in this country, we tried to maintain the flavor of the original in both the typographic layout and in the illustrations, which add their own humor to that of the text.
Credits
Illustrator: Mark Livingston
Jacket illustrator: Mark Livingston
Production manager: Sylvia Davatz
Author: Himself
Size: 5.25 x 8.75 inches
Pages: 124
Quantity printed: first printing of 4,400
Price: $8.95
Typefaces: Text: 11/14 Linotype Baskerville, Display foundry Cloister Black
Typesetter: Dix Typesetting Company
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Printing method: offset, dropout halftones (black/white illustrations)
Jacket printer: Pentacle Press
Printing method: Strathmore Text Pewter (illustrations reproduced as 300-line screen halftones)
Paper: Simpson Lee 100% Recycled Text, 70 lb. Ivory Laid Finish
Paper manufacturer: Simpson Lee
Paper supplies: Colonial Paper Company
Binder: Murray Printing Company
Binding materials: Kingston Natural Finish, #35306, made by Holliston Mills, supplied by Murray Printing Company; on .080 binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Early American Text, Saratoga Blue
Endpaper manufacturer: Linweave Creative Papers
Endpaper supplies: RIS Paper Company
Publisher: David R. Godine
