Naval Sketches of the War in California, Reproducing Twenty-Eight Drawings made in 1846–47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. Sloop-of-War Dale
Edwin Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn, New York, New York, 1939
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1940)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Edwin Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn
- Illustrations
- Water color, Collotype, Color plates cut by hand and printed
- Authors
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (introduction), Capt. Dudley W. Knox, U.S.N. (descriptive text)
- Trim size
- 10.5 x 15.75 inches
- Pages
- x, 88 pages, 28 plates
- Quantity printed
- Limited edition, 1,000 copies
- Price
- $25.00
- Typefaces
- Goudy Modern 18 on 24 point [Monotype] (text), Caslon Openface (display), Type Measure: 62 x 40 picas
- Compositor
- The Grabhorn Press (handset)
- Printers
- The Grabhorn Press (text and color plates, cut by hand), Meriden Gravure Company (illustrations)
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Paper
- W & A Special Wove, Ivory, Substance 118
- Binder
- The Grabhorn Press
- Binding
- Printed paper sides, white goat skin on backbone, leather label on backbone
- Stamping
- Genuine roll gold
- Publisher
- Random House
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