Abel Buell of Connecticut: Silversmith, Type Found & Engraver
Willard A. Lockwood, 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Willard A. Lockwood
- Author
- Lawrence C. Wroth
- Trim size
- 6 x 9.25 inches; Bulk: 0.5 inches
- Pages
- 120 overall plus 9 illustrations (3 folding)
- Price
- $5.00
- Typefaces
- 11/14 Linotype Baskerville (type), 18, 24, 30, 36 Monotype Baskerville; 14 Linotype Baskerville (display)
- Compositor
- Connecticut Printers, Inc. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard division)
- Plate maker
- The Meriden Gravure Company
- Printer
- Connecticut Printers, Inc. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard division) (letterpress); The Meriden Gravure Company (offset)
- Printing methods
- letterpress printed from the slugs (plates), letterpress (text), offset (illustrations, albumen plates)
- Papers
- Letterpress: Mead’s 25 x 38 inches —70 Suede Book Laid white, offset: Lee’s 22 x 29 inches —54 wove ivory, basis 80
- Paper supplies
- Rourke-Eno Paper Co., Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp.
- Binder
- Russell-Rutter Company\, Inc.
- Binding
- Holliston’s Aldine Linen Finish 11275 black, over .088 binders boards, shelfback stamped in bright aluminum foil, front in blind, illustrations inserted as wraps, gray top stain
- Endpapers
- White 80-lb.
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
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