Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924–1974
Stephen Harvard, New York, New York, 1974
Description
The Library’s acquisitions are herein grouped by category: Early Printed Books, Autograph Letters & Manuscripts, Drawings, and Mediaeval & Renaissance Manuscripts. Each volume contains a comprehensive introduction, and annotated catalog.
Special feature: The four volumes are boxed in a slipcase manufactured by J. Landowne Company, Inc. Slipcase is covered in the same design as the printed endpapers: Cockerell #9 pattern offset on Curtis Rag.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Stephen Harvard
- Production managers
- C. Freeman Keith, The Stinehour Press
- Authors
- Charles Ryskamp, Herbert Cahoon, Felice Stamfle, Paul Needham, William Voelkle
- Size
- 4 clipcased volumes, each 9 x 11.75 inches
- Pages
- 108 to 140 pages each
- Quantity printed
- edition of 2,500
- Price
- $3,500
- Typeface
- Monotype Bembo, 16/20, with display in Monotype Perpetua
- Typesetter
- The Stinehour Press
- Printer
- The Meriden Gravure Company
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Curtus Rag, 90 lb., White
- Paper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Binder
- New Hampshire Bindery
- Binding materials
- softbound in Curtis Tweedweave Cover, 80 lb., Charcoal
- Paper supplies
- Colonial Paper Company
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Endpapers
- Strathmore Impress Text
- Publisher
- The Pierpont Morgan Library
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