Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
Arthur Williams, Boston, Massachusetts, 1942
Description
Juror Notes
This double decker contrives to be a pleasant reader’s companion despite some typographical intemperance in display and the fact that the plates go jingle jangle jingle on paper that doesn’t belong.
Ray Nash
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Arthur Williams
- Drawing
- Bertram Greene
- Cartographer
- Erwin Raisz
- Author
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Size
- 6 x 9.25 inches
- Pages
- xlv, 448 (vol. 1); vii, 445 (vol. 2)
- Price
- $10.00
- Typefaces
- Linotype Janson, 11 point, 3 point leading, Linotype Janson, Monotype Janson, Monotype Bembo, and Monotype Goudy Text (title page), Monotype Bembo and Monotype Goudy Medieval (other display), 26 x 42 picas
- Compositor
- J.S. Cushing Company
- Printers
- Berwick and Smith Company (text), Berwick and Smith Company (letterpress illustrations), Tudor Press (offset illustrations), Pilgrim Photo-Engraving Company (letterpress line engravings)
- Printing methods
- letterpress, offset
- Illustrations
- line engravings
- Papers
- Crobank Book, white eggshell, sub. 60 (text), Crobank Offset, white smooth, sub. 80 (illustrations)
- Binder
- The Riverside Bindery
- Binding
- Smyth sewn, bound between boards covered with Holliston Record Buckram English finish No. 17166
- Stamping
- blue ink and imitation roll gold leaf (on binding)
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press
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