Melbert B. Cary, Jr., and the Press of the Woolly Whale book
Jerry Kelly LLC, New York, New York, 2002
Description
In the early part of the 20th century, Melbert B. Cary, Jr., imported some of the finest European types into the United States and ran a small private press. After his untimely death, much of the press’s material, together with Cary’s superb collection of books on printing and the graphic arts, formed the basis of the Cary Library at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The creation of this book, in tribute to Cary’s printing, was led by David Pankow, the curator of that collection. Fortunately there were some original cuts from the press available, which Dave printed at the Cary press. These were tipped into the book, along with an original leaf. Other items were reproduced by offset lithography. Letterpress for the text was, of course, in perfect keeping with the letterpress of Cary’s press—though in this instance we printed from polymer plates, not actual metal type.
Credits
- Design firm
- Jerry Kelly LLC
- Art director
- Jerry Kelly
- Designer
- Jerry Kelly
- Photographer
- Cary Library
- Production director
- Jerry Kelly
- Production coordinator
- Jerry Kelly
- Trim size
- 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
- Pages
- 80
- Quantity printed
- 120
- Compositor
- Jerry Kelly
- Typefaces
- Dante, Koch Antiqua
- Printers
- Digital Letterpress, Finlay Printing
- Printing method
- Letterpress, offset
- Paper
- Zerkall Book Laid
- Binder
- Judi Conant
- Authors
- Kenneth A. Auchincloss, David Pankow, Carl Rollins
- Editor
- David Pankow
- Publisher
- Cary Graphic Arts Press