The Voyage of Racoon: A ‘Secret’ Journal of a Visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813–1814

The Voyage of Racoon: A ‘Secret’ Journal of a Visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813–1814

Taylor & Taylor, 1958

Description

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

Credits

Designer
Taylor & Taylor
Decorations
Henry Rusk
Author
Unknown
Editor
John A. Hussey
Trim size
7.5 x 12.25 inches; Bulk: 0.25 inches
Pages
72, 6 plates of ills. (one double);
Price
$16.00
Quantity printed
400
Typefaces
14 original foundry Bell, leaded 2 pts., handset; 10 foundry Oxford, leaded 2 pts., handset (text), 14, 22 original foundry Bell; 42 ATF Caslon Open Titling (display)
Compositor
Taylor & Taylor
Engraver
Oakland National Engraving & Gravure Co.
Plate maker
Charles R. Wood & Associates
Printer
Taylor & Taylor (letterpress); Charles R. Wood & Associates (offset)
Printing methods
text in letterpress, illustrations in offset; black only
Illustrations
Photographs of original documents; pen-and-ink line drawings; reproduced by black-and-white halftone; halftone with surprinted line (both 150 screen); line
Papers
Text: 28 x 40 inches—106 Rag, Natural Wove, basis 90; illustrations: Curtis’s 28 x 40 inches—88 Rag, Natural Wove sized for offset, basis 75
Paper supplies
Wilson-Rich Paper Company
Binder
The Schuberth Bookbindery
Binding
Spine of black fabricated leather, sides of French hand-marbled paper, over .098 binders boards, illustrations inserted as tips
Binding supplies
Gane Bros. & Lane, Inc., Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp.
Stamping
shelfback stamped in genuine gold leaf
Endpapers
Curtis’s Rag, Natural Wove, 90-lb.
Publisher
The Book Club of California
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