The Florentine Fior di Virtu of 1491
Alan B. Kirschbaum, Washington, District of Columbia, 1953
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1954)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Alan B. Kirschbaum
- Author
- Lessing J. Rosenwald (introduction)
- Translator
- Nicholas Fersin
- Trim size
- 6.25 x 9.5 inches
- Pages
- 152
- Quantity printed
- 3,000 copies (200 numbered)
- Price
- $2.50
- Typefaces
- Monotype Poliphilus Roman and Blado italic 16/16.5 (text), Monotype Bembo (display), 25 x 41 picas (type page)
- Compositor
- Westcott & Thomson
- Engraver
- American Photo-engraving Co.
- Printer
- Edward Stern & Co.
- Printing method
- letterpress, two colors
- Paper
- Rives Mould Made heavyweight buff
- Paper supplies
- Paper House of Pennsylvania
- Paper manufacturers
- Soc. Anon. des Papeteries de Rives, France (text), T.H. Saunders & Co., Ltd., England (binding)
- Binder
- National Publishing Company
- Binding
- White Invicta Parchment paper over flexible boards
- Stamping
- red and black ink (spine and recto)
- Publisher
- Library of Congress
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