WAD to RR, a Letter about Designing Type
W.A. Dwiggins, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1942)
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- W.A. Dwiggins
- Illustrator
- W.A. Dwiggins
- Calligrapher
- W.A. Dwiggins
- Author
- W.A. Dwiggins
- Size
- 8.5 x 11.25 inches
- Pages
- 12
- Price
- $1.75
- Typefaces
- Linotype Caledonia, 12 point, 1 point leaded, calligraphy, 24 x 49 picas
- Printers
- The Abbey Press, Gordon-Taylor, Inc. (letterpress), The Alpine Press (offset lithography)
- Printing methods
- letterpress, offset lithography (illustrations)
- Papers
- Worthy Aurelian Dull, natural wove Bs. 80, tissue insert
- Paper manufacturer
- Heliograph Corporation of Massachusetts (tissue insert)
- Binder
- McNamee Bookbinding Co.
- Binding
- Singer sewn, paper (cover), flaps turned in on cardboard sides, label on front cover printed on Aurelian Dull wove paper by letterpress in black and red from line plates designed by W.A. Dwiggins.
- Publisher
- Harvard College Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
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