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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