Printing For Theater

Printing For Theater

Adrian Wilson, San Francisco, California, 1957

Description

Essay on printing of theater programs.

Special Features:
Original programs on various domestic and imported papers, using many hand set and machine set faces, and illustrations by fifteen artists. Twenty programs are tipped into the book; fifteen are in pocket at back.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1958)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Adrian Wilson
Illustrator
Nuko Haramaki
Author
Adrian Wilson
Size
10.25 x 15.5 inches
Pages
68
Price
$30.00
Typeface
Linotype Caslon Old Face, with Stempel Trajanus display
Compositors
Adrian Wilson (Stempel Trajanus display), Halle-Cordis Composing Room (Linotype Caslon Old Face)
Engraver
Walter J. Mann Co. and various individual artists
Printers
Adrian Wilson (letterpress), Lawton Kennedy (halftones), R.E. Hartford Co. (lithography)
Printing method
letterpress, halftone, lithography
Illustrations
wood and linoleum cuts, pen and ink drawings
Papers
Tovil, Hayle Mill
Paper supplies
Zellerbach Paper Co., Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp.
Paper manufacturer
J. Barcham Green
Binder
Perry G. Davis
Binding materials
handwoven Belgian linen, printed by letterpress from electrotypes of linoleum cuts by Nuiko Haramaki
Endpapers
original “Hamlet” program lithographed by Castagno & Sons on Town Crier Text
Endpaper supplies
Linweave Association, Carpenter Paper Co.
Publisher
Adrian Wilson
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