Homage to the Book

Homage to the Book

Bradbury Thompson, New York, New York, 1968

Description

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1969)
Repository: Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director
Bradbury Thompson
Designers
Leonard Baskin, Joseph Blumenthal, Bert Clarke, Brooke Crutchley, Alvin Eisenman, Norman Ives, Joseph Low, Giovanni Mardersteig, Herbert Matter, Paul Rand, Roderick Stinehour, Bradbury Thompson, Georg Trump, Jan Tschichold, Carl Zahn, Hermann Zapf
Editor
Bradbury Thompson
Size
9 x 12 inches
Pages
88
Quantity printed
edition of 5,000
Price
not for sale
Typefaces
Aldus, Arrighi, Baskerville, bell, Bembo, Bodoni, Caslon, Centaur, Dante, Emerson, Garamond, Janson, Kennerley, Modern No. 8 Optima, Perpetua, Trump Mediaeval, Univers, Van Dijck, Walbaum
Typesetters
C.E. Weber, Stuttgart, Clarke & Way, Inc., Eastern Press, Inc., Finn Typographic, The Gehenna Press, Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., Spiral Press, Stamperia Valdonega, Sterlip Press, The Stinehour Press, Tri-Arts Press, University Printing House, Cambridge University, Yale Univserity Press
Printers
Clarke & Way, Inc. (letterpress), Eastern Press, Inc. (letterpress), The Gehenna Press (letterpress), Spiral Press (letterpress), Sterlip Press (letterpress), The Stinehour Press (letterpress), Herst Litho, Inc. (offset), The Meriden Gravure Company (offset), Sterlip Press (offset), Tri-Arts Press (offset), Sirocco Screenprints, Inc. (Screenprinting)
Printing method
offset, letterpress
Papers
Westvaco Clear Spring Book antique, eggshell, text, Coronation Litho dull, Pinnacle Book eggshell, Velvo Book Litho plate
Binder
J. Landowne Company
Binding materials
Interlaken AL3 850
Endpapers
Cockerell marbled handmade
Endpaper supplies
Andrews-Nelson-Whitehead
Publisher
Westvaco Corporation
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