The Fortsas Bibliohoax, With a Reprint of the Fortsas Catalogue
Melbert B. Cary, Jr., New York, New York, 1942
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Melbert B. Cary, Jr.
- Illustrator
- Fritz Kredel (line drawing)
- Authors
- Walter Klinefelter, Weber DeVore (bibliographical notes and comment)
- Size
- 5.5 x 8 inches
- Pages
- 72
- Quantity printed
- 200
- Price
- $4.00
- Typefaces
- Monotype Centaur hand set, 12 and 10 point, 2 point leading, Monotype Centaur and American Type Founders Civilité (title page), 21 x 30 picas
- Compositor
- Press of the Woolly Whale
- Printers
- Press of the Woolly Whale (letterpress), Beck Engraving Company (line engraving)
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Illustrations
- line drawing reproduced in line engraving (on title page), end leaf map, key in line engraving, and color printed from hand-cut linoleum blocks, overprinted with varnish from canvas pad
- Paper
- Whitehead & Alliger All Rag, cream rough, sub. 55
- Binder
- J.F. Tapley Company
- Binding
- Smyth sewn, bond between boards covered with Hurlbut Shadowmould paper, Bancroft Lynnene (on backbone)
- Stamping
- genuine gold (on backbone)
- Publisher
- Press of the Woolly Whale
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