Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin
Thos. C. Pears, III, Theodore Bowman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1953
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1954)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Thos. C. Pears, III, Theodore Bowman
- Illustrator
- Andrey Avinoff
- Illustrations
- Watercolors, actual size of plants
- Author
- O.E. Jennings
- Trim size
- 10.25 x 14 inches
- Pages
- 2 volumes: vol. 1, 652, vol. 2, 820
- Quantity printed
- limited edition, 3,000 sets
- Price
- $60.00
- Typefaces
- Monotype Janson, various sizes (text), Monotype Janson and hand-lettering (display)
- Compositor
- Beck Engraving Company
- Printer
- Beck Engraving Company (text)
- Printing methods
- letterpress, captions in gray (text), sheetfed gravure, three primary colors (illustrations)
- Papers
- Specially made White Strathmore Book, 50% rag, 70 lb. for vol. 1 (text), Specially made White Strathmore Book, 50% rag, 90 lb. for vol. 2 (illustrations), Caption paper Crane’s Linen Bond 16\, unwatermarked\, 100% rag
- Paper supplies
- Chatfield & Woods Co., The Alling & Cory Co.
- Paper manufacturers
- Strathmore Paper Co., Crane Paper Co.
- Binder
- Russell-Rutter Co.
- Binding manufacturer
- Holliston Mills (cloth)
- Binding
- Light green Roxite Record Buckram Linen Finish, Topstain green
- Stamping
- genuine gold, blind on recto (spine)
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
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