Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection. Part I, 1507–1571
Sarah Augusta Dickson, William Thurman (text), Liam Dunne (cover), 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Sarah Augusta Dickson, William Thurman (text), Liam Dunne (cover)
- Author
- Sarah Augusta Dickson
- Trim size
- 9.75 x 13.25 inches; Bulk: 0.25 inches
- Pages
- 76 (52 text; 24 reproductions)
- Price
- $5.00
- Quantity printed
- 300
- Typefaces
- 10, 12, 14 Linotype Caslon Old Face with logotypes, various leadings (text), 12, 14, 18, 22, 30 ATF Caslon 471; 48 Ludlow Caslon Truecut (display)
- Compositor
- The New York Public Library
- Plate maker
- The Meriden Gravure Company
- Printer
- The New York Public Library (letterpress); The Meriden Gravure Company (offset)
- Printing method
- letterpress printed from the slugs; offset: albumen
- Illustrations
- Photographs of pages and bindings from the original books; reproduced in black-and-white halftone (300 screen)
- Papers
- Curtis’s 25 x 38 inches —75 Rag, Natural Wove for Offset
- Paper supplies
- The Whitaker Paper Co.
- Binder
- Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
- Binding
- Curtis’s Tweedweave Cover Dusty Rose, 65-lb., pre-printed on shelfback and front in black by The New York Public Library
- Binding supplies
- The Whitaker Paper Co.
- Endpapers
- none; book is pasted into the paper covers; cover functions as title page
- Publisher
- The New York Public Library
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