The American Heritage Book of the Revolution
Irwin Glusker, 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Irwin Glusker
- Illustrations
- Douglas Gorsline (title page drawing), iilustrated with reproductions of contemporary art and documentary material
- Author
- The Editors of American Heritage
- Editor
- Richard M. Ketchum, Editor in Charge
- Trim size
- 8.5 x 11 inches, Bulk: 1 inch
- Pages
- 384
- Price
- $12.50
- Typefaces
- 11/13, 10/12 Monotype Baskerville 353, 24, 48 Fry (ATF Baskerville); 16 pt. Monotype Baskerville 169; 11/13 Baskerville 353; title hand lettered by Harold Fiedler
- Compositor
- Westcott & Thomson\, Inc.
- Engraver
- Angerer and Goschl (4-color); Knapp Engraving Co.\, Inc. (4-color offset); Consolidated Lithographing Corp. (2-color offset)
- Plate maker
- Westcott & Thomson\, Inc. (letterpress); Herst Litho\, Inc. (4-color offset); Consolidated Lithographing Corp. (2-color offset)
- Printer
- Davis Delaney, Inc. (letterpress); Herst Litho, Inc. (4-color offset); Consolidated Lithographing Corp. (2-color offset)
- Printing methods
- 5-color letterpress (128 pp.); 2-color offset (208 pp.); 4-color offset (48 pp.), Photographs; reproduced in line, letterpress halftone (120 screen), offset halftone (150 screen), 4-color letterpress process (120/133 screen), and 4-color offset process (150 screen)
- Papers
- Letterpress: Champion’s 47.5 x 71.5 inches —286 Cico Press, basis 80, 2-color offset: Oxford’s 46.5 x 69.5 inches —238 Wescar Offset, basic 70; 4-color offset: Champion’s 35 x 46 inches —119 Cico Duoset Ivory, basis 70
- Paper supplies
- Bulkley Dunton & Co., Inc., Albert D. Smith & Co.\, Inc.
- Binders
- Bancroft’s Natural Finish Buckram 6850 red over .080 binders boards, shelfback stamped in roll imitation gold foil, front in blind
- Endpapers
- New York & Pennsylvania’s 80-lb. white
- Endpaper supplies
- Baldwin Paper Co., Inc.
- Publisher
- American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.
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