By a Vote of Congress
Kay Michael Kramer, 1976
Description
The text is a chronology of events, beginning with the ascension of George III to the throne of England, that brought the Colonies to the point of rebellion and necessitated the establishment of a Continental Army as described in the reproduction of John Adams’ letter of June 18, 1775. The text is set in types specially cast for this edition using matrices produced from the punches engraved in the eighteenth century by William Caslon. Limited to 145 copies.
Special Features: The facsimile o f John Adams’ letter was reproduced in three colors of offset lithography on Warren’s Old Style Laid, by Hope Press, Inc.
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Kay Michael Kramer
- Author
- Randolph K. Tibbits
- Editor
- Daisy Kramer
- Size
- 6.75 x 10 inches
- Pages
- 41
- Quantity printed
- first printing of 145 copies
- Price
- $37.50
- Typeface
- Text in 14/16 hand-set Caslon Old Face; Display hand-set Caslon Old Face and Janson
- Typesetter
- The Printery
- Printer
- Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
- Printing method
- Text and black/white illustrations: letterpress
- Binder
- Becktold Company
- Binding materials
- Red leather (spine) supplied by Gane Brothers and Lane; Cockerell marbled paper, red, brown, and beige (sides) made by Sydney Cockerell and supplied by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead; on .070 pt. Davey binders board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn
- Publisher
- The Printery
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