The Artist in America
W.A. Dwiggins, New York, New York, 1942
Description
Twenty-four Close-Ups of Contemporary Printmakers.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- W.A. Dwiggins
- Author
- Carl Zigrosser
- Size
- 7 x 10 inches
- Pages
- 238
- Price
- $5.00
- Typefaces
- Linotype Caledonia, 11 point, 5 point leading, American Type Founders Baskerville and Bulmer (title page), Monotype Cochin (other display), 27 x 46.5 picas
- Compositor
- The Plimpton Press
- Printers
- The Plimpton Press (letterpress), Beck Engraving Company (sheet-fed gravure)
- Printing methods
- letterpress, sheet-fed gravure (reproduced woodcuts)
- Illustrations
- engravings, etchings, drypoints, lithographs, woodcuts reproduced in sheet-fed gravure
- Papers
- Warren Eggshell, bright white eggshell wove, sub. 70 (text), Madison Gravure, white (illustrations)
- Binder
- The Plimpton Press
- Binding
- Smyth sewn, bound between boards covered with Holliston Buckram English finish
- Stamping
- imitation gold (on binding)
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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