The Athenaeum Gallery, 1827–1873: The Boston Athenaeum as an Early Patron of Art
D.B. Updike of The Merrymount Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1941
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1942)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- D.B. Updike of The Merrymount Press
- Authors
- Mabel Munson Swan, Charles Knowles Bolton (introduction)
- Size
- 6.25 x 8.75 inches
- Pages
- xvi, 312
- Price
- $6.00
- Typefaces
- English Monotype Caslon No. 218, 9 and 10 point solid and 11 and 12 point, 1 point leaded (text), Janson (title page), Janson and Caslon (other display), 25 x 39.5 picas
- Compositor
- D.B. Updike of The Merrymount Press
- Printers
- D.B. Updike of The Merrymount Press (letterpress), John Peterson & Son (gravure)
- Printing methods
- letterpress, gravure (illustrations)
- Paper
- Hurlbut Glenbourn Book, ivory satin wove, Bs. 60
- Binder
- Boston Book Binding Co.
- Binding materials
- Smythe sewn, cloth-bounded in Interlaken Common Blue No. 102 T Pattern
- Stamping
- genuine gold leaf (on binding)
- Publisher
- The Boston Athenaeum
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