The Shores of America: Thoreau’s Inward Exploration
Wade Harris, 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Wade Harris
- Author
- Sherman Paul
- Trim size
- 6 x 8.75 inches; Bulk: 1.5 inches
- Pages
- 448, plus 1 tip
- Price
- $6.75
- Typefaces
- 10/12, 9/10, 8/9 Linotype Caledonia (text), 14, 24 Monotype Bulmer; 8, 14 Intertype Baskerville; 24, 30 Monotype Baskerville; 60 Fry (ATF Baskerville); 8, 10, 11 Linotype Caledonia (display)
- Compositor
- Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co.
- Engraver
- Bloomington Engraving Co.
- Printer
- Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., University of Illinois Print Shop (endpapers)
- Printing methods
- letterpress (from the slugs), in black only (two-color title page)
- Papers
- West Virginia’s 37 x 49 inches —115 Inspiration Eggshell, basis 60
- Binder
- Becktold Company
- Binding
- Bancroft’s Arrestox C 1100 gray over .088 binders boards
- Binding supplies
- Albert D. Smith & Co.\, Inc
- Stamping
- shelfback and front stamped with black pigment foil
- Endpapers
- Curtis’s Tweedweave Text Tan, 80-lb., printed by offset in brown ink
- Publisher
- The University of Illinois Press
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