Adventures by Sea of Edward Coxere
John A. Begg, Mount Vernon, New York, 1946
Description
Juror Notes
Most travel books are cumbersome. This one is invitingly handy. Moreover, it has imaginatively conceived modern use of historical material, with an unusually attractive binding design.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- John A. Begg
- Illustrator
- E.H.W. Meyerstein
- Illustrations
- Photographs of original MS
- Author
- H.M. Tomlinson (foreword)
- Editor
- E.H.W. Meyerstein
- Trim size
- 4.5 x 6 inches
- Pages
- 232
- Price
- $2.50
- Typefaces
- Janson [Linotype] 10 pt., 3 pt. leading, Special text type combining 10 pt. Granjon caps with 10 pt. Janson lower case, Janson [Foundry] (title page), Janson [Monotype] (other display), Goudy Mediaeval (initials), Type Measure: 20 x 26 picas
- Compositor
- S.A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press
- Engraver
- Photogravure & Color Co.
- Printer
- S.A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Papers
- Suede Wove [white, antique], 38 x 50–240/M, Oxford Special Gravure [white, antique], 26 x 38–146/M (gravure)
- Paper supplies
- Dill and Collins Inc., Oxford Paper Co.
- Binder
- H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co., Inc.
- Binding supplies
- Cloth backbone, paper sides, Bancroft Lynnene, gravure printed sides, green ink
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
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