Fifty years, 1899-1949, of the American book-Stratford Press, Inc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

American Book-Stratford Press.

Contributor:

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Book-Stratford Press.

Type and type-founding--Specimens.

Type and type-founding.

Printers' ornaments--Specimens.

Printers' ornaments.

Genre:

Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 22 cm

Edition:

[Golden Anniversary Edition].

Other Title:

1899-1969 American Book-Stratford Press

Type faces for machine

Type faces for display

Type faces machine composition at the American Book-Stratford Press Incorporated

Type faces display composition at the American Book-Stratford Press Incorporated

Place of Publication:

New York : American Book-Stratford Press, [©1949]

Contents:

Type faces machine composition

Type faces display composition.

Notes:

Paged continuously.

Previous edition entitled: Forty years 1899-1939 of the American Book-Stratford Press.

"This specimen book has been designed to be a useful tool in the hands of a typographer or layout man.

Burgundy cloth with black spine panels stamped in gold; beveled edges. Top edge gilt stained.

Thumb indexed.

"The text used for the type pages was taken from the essay 'The Book Beautiful' by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy has "Atha Tehon" written in ms. on half-title page.

Tehon Collection copy incomplete: v. 2 wanting.

Tehon Collection copy has paper bookmarks inserted.

OCLC:

81799725