Town & Davis, Architects: Pioneers in American Revivalist Architecture, 1812–1870, Including a Glimpse of Their Times and Their Contemporaries

Town & Davis, Architects: Pioneers in American Revivalist Architecture, 1812–1870, Including a Glimpse of Their Times and Their Contemporaries

Eugenia Porter, New York, New York, 1942

Description

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Eugenia Porter
Author
Roger Hale Newton
Size
6 x 9.25 inches
Pages
xx, 334, 24 illustrations, frontis
Quantity printed
1,000
Price
$4.00
Typefaces
Linotype Scotch, 11.5 point, 2.5 point leading, American Type Founders Bulmer (title page and other display), 26 x 42 picas
Compositor
Vail-Ballou Press
Printers
Vail-Ballou Press (letterpress), The Meriden Gravure Company (collotype)
Printing methods
letterpress, collotype (illustrations)
Papers
Curtis Crown Wove, natural eggshell, sub. 60 (text), American Chester Offset, natural white smooth, sub. 70 (illustrations)
Binder
Vail-Ballou Press
Binding
Smyth sewn, bound between boards covered with Holliston Aldine Vellum No. 1002
Stamping
blind stamped (on front cover), genuine gold leaf (on backbone)
Publisher
Columbia University Press
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