Mary Celeste: The Odyssey of an Abandoned Ship

Mary Celeste: The Odyssey of an Abandoned Ship

Fred Anthoensen, Salem, Massachusetts, 1942

Description

Regular Edition. 

Juror Notes

Designer and manufacturer have pulled diverse elements together to make this one an attractive, workmanlike book at a price.

Ray Nash

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

Credits

Designer
Fred Anthoensen
Author
Charles Edey Fay
Size
7 x 10 inches
Pages
100
Price
$2.50
Typefaces
Linotype Baskerville, 14 point, 1 point leading, Linotype Baskerville (title page and other display), 27 x 43.5 picas
Compositor
The Southworth-Anthoensen Press
Printers
The Southworth-Anthoensen Press (letterpress), Shaylor Engraving Company (line and halftone engravings), Rudolph Ruzicka (three-color wood engraving)
Printing method
letterpress
Illustrations
line and halftone engravings, three-color wood engraving
Papers
Worthy Special 50% Rag Laid, natural plater finish, sub. 60 (text), Warren New England Gloss, natural, sub. 80 and Worthy Sterling Plate, gray wove, sub. 80 (illustrations)
Binder
J.W. Marchi
Binding
Smyth sewn, bound between boards covered with Bancroft Oxford blue
Stamping
imitation gold (on binding)
Publisher
Peabody Museum
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