Mary Celeste: The Odyssey of an Abandoned Ship
Fred Anthoensen, Salem, Massachusetts, 1942
Description
Regular Edition.
Juror Notes
Designer and manufacturer have pulled diverse elements together to make this one an attractive, workmanlike book at a price.
Ray Nash
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Fred Anthoensen
- Author
- Charles Edey Fay
- Size
- 7 x 10 inches
- Pages
- 100
- Price
- $2.50
- Typefaces
- Linotype Baskerville, 14 point, 1 point leading, Linotype Baskerville (title page and other display), 27 x 43.5 picas
- Compositor
- The Southworth-Anthoensen Press
- Printers
- The Southworth-Anthoensen Press (letterpress), Shaylor Engraving Company (line and halftone engravings), Rudolph Ruzicka (three-color wood engraving)
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Illustrations
- line and halftone engravings, three-color wood engraving
- Papers
- Worthy Special 50% Rag Laid, natural plater finish, sub. 60 (text), Warren New England Gloss, natural, sub. 80 and Worthy Sterling Plate, gray wove, sub. 80 (illustrations)
- Binder
- J.W. Marchi
- Binding
- Smyth sewn, bound between boards covered with Bancroft Oxford blue
- Stamping
- imitation gold (on binding)
- Publisher
- Peabody Museum
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