The Shores of America:  Thoreau’s Inward Exploration

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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