Cardano: The Gambling Scholar
P.J. Conkwright, Princeton, New Jersey, 1953
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1954)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- P.J. Conkwright
- Illustrations
- Linecuts from original editions, paintings, and Italian playing cards
- Authors
- Oystein Ore, Cardano’s Book on Games of Chance translated by Sydney Henry Gould
- Trim size
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- Pages
- 264
- Price
- $4.00
- Typefaces
- Linotype Electra 11/13 and 9/10 (text), Ludlow Caslon Truecut (display)
- Compositor
- Princeton University Press
- Engraver
- Empire Photoengraving Company
- Printers
- Princeton University Press (text), Meriden Gravure Co. (illustration)
- Printing methods
- letterpress (text), offset (illustrations)
- Papers
- White Olde Style, 50 lb. (text), White Colophon, 70 lb. (offset illustrations)
- Paper supplies
- Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons, The Stevens-Nelson Paper Corp.
- Paper manufacturers
- S.D. Warren Co. (text), Curtis Paper Co. (illustrations)
- Binder
- J.C. Valentine Company
- Binding
- Gray Statron 108, topstain black
- Binding supplies
- Albert D. Smith & Co. (cloth)
- Binding manufacturer
- Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company (cloth)
- Stamping
- Grauert Red Metallic leaf 330 over Grauert Panel Black (spine), Grauert Red Metallic leaf 330 (recto)
- Endpapers
- Gray Schuylkill Flyleaf, 80 lb.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
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