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Description
The problem here is obvious: color had to be ganged on one side of each signature and the colors within each signature had to kept consistent in tone. This is flat, not process, color, and in some cases the sheet went six times through Meriden’s single color presses. We chose Monotype Bell as being closest to Updike’s favorite, Mountjoye. We also love the Olde Style laid; it’s a paper for which even old D.B. would have felt a qualified affection.
Credits
Jacket designer: John Anderson
Illustrator: Rudolph Ruzicka
Production manager: Donna Long
Author: Walter Muir Whitehill
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Pages: 144
Quantity printed: first printing of 7,500
Price: $12.50 hardbound, $6.95 paperbound
Typeface: Text (12/14) and display in Monotype Bell
Typesetter: Stinehour Press
Printer: Meriden Gravure Company
Jacket printer: Winthrop Press
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Papers: Olde Style Laid, 80 lb., Jacket: Americana Mr. Vernon, 80lb. white
Paper manufacturers: S.D. Warren Company, Strathmore Paper Company (jacket)
Paper supplies: Carter Rice Storrs & Bement
Binder: Robert Burlen & Son
Binding: Blind panel embossed on binding and a Ruzicka engraving tipped in
Binding materials: Novelex Linen, #2764 salmon, made by Holliston Mills, supplied by Robert Burlen & Son; on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Multicolor, gold
Endpaper manufacturer: Process Materials Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: David Godine
