21 Engravings, Volume I and II.
R. Hunter Middleton, Philip Reed, Carol Cannon (cover), St. Charles, Illinois, 1951
Description
Excerpts from Bewick’s ‘British Birds’ and ‘History of Quadrupeds’
Privately printed.
Special feature: boxed
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1952)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- R. Hunter Middleton, Philip Reed, Carol Cannon (cover)
- Illustrations
- electros of wood engravings printed separately from text
- Author
- Thomas Bewick
- Size
- 6 x 8.25 inches
- Pages
- 82
- Quantity printed
- 500
- Price
- $25.00
- Typefaces
- 14/26 English Monotype Perpetua. Handset (text), English Monotype Perpetua, supplied by Los Angeles Type and Rule (display)
- Compositor
- Printing Office of Philip Reed
- Engraver
- Partridge & Anderson
- Printer
- Printing Office of Philip Reed
- Printing method
- letterpress, title-page in two colors
- Papers
- Hurlbut Ragston, antique, Hurlbut Bethany Book (cover)
- Paper supplies
- Stevens-Nelson
- Binder
- Elizabeth Kner
- Binding materials
- three-piece, sewn on tapes and hand-cased, paper sides, printed in two colors, leather spine, Oasis Niger
- Stamping
- genuine gold
- Publisher
- Edna W. Ferriss
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