The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish
Cameron Poulter, Joseph Alderfer, 1975
Description
This book is essentially a facsimile of Thomas Cavendish’s account of his last voyage and will. Also included s a modern transcript of both documents. The trim was determined to accommodate a facsimile page and it’s facing line-for-line transcription on one spread, plus some rather copious footnotes. Also included are reproductions of Cavendish’s maps and a fold-out track chart of his last voyage.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1976)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art directors
- Cameron Poulter, Joseph Alderfer
- Designers
- Lea Rosenblatt, Joseph Alderfer
- Production manager
- Cameron Poulter
- Editor
- David B. Quinn
- Size
- 7 x 11.75 inches
- Pages
- 176
- Quantity printed
- first printing of 1,000
- Price
- $22.50
- Typefaces
- Text in 11/13 Linotype Garamond, Display in foundry American Garamond italic
- Typesetter
- Typoservice
- Printer
- Meriden Gravure Company
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Superfine Text, 70 lb. soft white
- Paper manufacturer
- Mohawk Paper Mills
- Binder
- Rand McNally
- Binding materials
- Kennett, #36121 natural, made by Joanna Western Mills Company, on 88pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Endpapers
- Multiocolor, antique cayenne
- Endpaper manufacturer
- Process Materials Corporation
- Endpaper supplies
- Rand McNally
- Publisher
- University of Chicago press
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