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Description
This is an edition of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. The purpose has been to recreate by means of illustration, using as far as possible engravings and objects contemporary with the poem, the actual visible world of Pope’s time.
Credits
Illustrations: Herzig Somerville Limited
Production manager: John Ecclestone
Author: Clarence Tracy (introduction and notes)
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Pages: 128
Quantity printed: edition of 1,500
Price: $12.50
Typeface: Linotype Baskerville, 11/13, with display in ATF Baskerville
Typesetter: University of Toronto Press, Printing Department
Printer: University of Toronto Press
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Hunter Rose Ltd.
Paper: Britecoat Dull (Domtar), 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Buntin Reid, Ltd.
Binder: Hunter Rose Ltd.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Riverside Linen Orange on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Multicolor (Process materials) Ash Gray
Endpaper supplies: White Hooke from Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Jacket: Strathmore Grandee Pewter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
