Credits

Designer

John Begg

Authors

Amelia Simmons, An American Orphan, Mary Tolford Wilson (introductory essay)

Trim size

5.5 x 9.5 inches; Bulk: 0.25 inches

Pages

84

Price

$15.00

Quantity printed

800

Typefaces

12/14 Linotype Estienne, 30 ATF Colonial (Fry’s Ornamented); 18 Monotype Arrighi; 10,12 Linotype Estienne

Compositors

S.A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press

Engraver

Liberty Photo-Engraving Corp.

Artwork

period wood engraved ornaments; original edition (1796) of the book; reproduced in line (ornaments)

Plate maker

The Meriden Gravure Company

Printers

S.A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press (letterpress); The Meriden Gravure Company (offset and collotype)

Printing methods

letterpress (printed from the slugs) offset, albumen, collotype, Introduction in letterpress, black only (32 pp.); facsimile of original edition in collotype, black only, over an offset ivory tint (52 pp.), Illustrations in collotype (original edition)

Papers

Letterpress: Linweave’s 26 x 40 inches —87.5 Early American Old Ivory, basis 80, collotype: Strathmore’s 35 x 45 inches —99.5 Impress white, basis 60

Paper supplies

Beekman Paper Co., Inc., The Meriden Gravure Company, Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp., Paper Corporation of United States

Binder

Charles H. Bohn & Co.\, Inc.

Binding

Spine of Joanna Western’s Impreglin Parchment 9420 gray-green, sides of Cockerell’s St. Albans 173 B pattern paper, over .080 binders boards; shelfback stamped in one impress of real gold

Endpapers

Linweave’s Early American Old Ivory, 80-lb.; flat back with board in spine

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Inc.