A Second Treasury of the World’s Great Letters
Robert Josephy, Tom Torre Bevans, New York, New York, 1941
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1942)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Robert Josephy, Tom Torre Bevans
- Author
- M. Lincoln Schuster (prefatory note)
- Compilers
- Wallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer
- Editors
- Wallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer
- Size
- 6 x 9.25 inches
- Pages
- xxxix, 636
- Price
- $3.75
- Typefaces
- Linotype Electra Oblique, 10 point, 15 point leaded, and Linotype Electra Roman, 11 point, 4 point leaded (text), Bodoni, Electra, and handlettering (title page), Deepdene, Electra, and Bodoni (other display), 26 x 41.5 picas
- Compositor
- The Haddon Craftsmen
- Printers
- The Haddon Craftsmen (letterpress), Beck Engraving Co. (gravure)
- Printing methods
- letterpress, gravure (illustrations)
- Paper
- Whitaker Windsor Book laid, off-white, smooth antique
- Binder
- The Haddon Craftsmen
- Binding
- Smythe sewn, cloth-bound in Bancroft Buckram, special grey black
- Stamping
- red ink and imitation roll gold leaf (on front cover and backbone)
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
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