The Discovery of Florida: Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes That Attended the Governor Don Hernando De Soto…by A Fidalgo of Elvas

The Discovery of Florida: Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes That Attended the Governor Don Hernando De Soto…by A Fidalgo of Elvas

Edwin Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco, California, 1946

Description

Juror Notes

This stunning quarto is printed in an attractive black letter. The decorations, including the cover design and the initials, owe a clear debt for their inspiration to the lateEric Gill, although they are by a contemporary artist. Despite, therefore, a certain archaic quality and a binding which warps, this is a noble volume, splendidly printed.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designers
Edwin Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn
Illustrator
Mallette Dean
Illustrations
Linoleum blocks
Author
Unknown
Translator
Buckingham Smith
Trim size
9 x 13.25 inches
Pages
110
Quantity printed
280 copies
Price
$27.50
Typefaces
Franciscan [Foundry] 16 pt., 2 pt. leading, handset by Robert and Jane Grabhorn, 34 x 57 picas (type measure)
Printer
The Grabhorn Press
Paper
Canson & Montgolfier [cream, antique] (imported), 22 x 26.5–60/M
Binder
The Grabhorn Press
Binding materials
Hurlbut\, all rag
Binding method
Cloth back, printed paper sides, printed labels
Publisher
The Book Club of California
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