Diaries, Prayers, and Annals

Diaries, Prayers, and Annals

Staff of the Yale Press, 1958

Description

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Staff of the Yale Press
Author
Samuel Johnson L.L.D.
Editors
E.L. McAdam, Jr., Donald Hyde, Mary Hyde
Trim size
5.75 x 8.75 inches; Bulk: 1.25 inches
Pages
484, plus 4 tips
Price
$10.00
Typeface
11/14, 11/12, 10/12, 8/10, 8/9 Linotype Baskerville
Compositor
Connecticut Printers, Inc. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard division)
Engraver
Rundbaken Engraving Company
Plate maker
The Meriden Gravure Company
Printers
Connecticut Printers, Inc. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard division) (letterpress), The Meriden Gravure Company (offset tips)
Printing methods
letterpress printed from the slugs, offset, albumen
Illustrations
photographs of documents, line drawings, reproduced by black-and-white halftone (300 screen) line
Papers
Mohawk’s 25 x 38 inches —60 Superfine Text Eggshell soft white, basis 60 for both letterpress and offset
Paper supplies
Rourke-Eno Paper Co.
Binder
Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
Binding materials
Bancroft’s Linen Finish 4460 blue over .088 binders boards
Stamping
shelfback stamped in genuine gold foil
Endpapers
white 80-lb.
Publisher
Yale University Press
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