Chicago letter founding / by R. Hunter Middleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Middleton, R. Hunter (Robert Hunter), 1898-1985, author.

Contributor:

Forgue, Norman W., printer.

Black Cat Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type and type-founding.

Printing--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Printing.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Type faces (Type evidence) -- Linotype Granjon.

Type faces (Type evidence) -- Ludlow Garamond.

Rives (paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

27, [3] pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Black Cat Press, 1937.

Notes:

"750 copies printed from Linotype Granjon and Ludlow Garamond on Rives hand-made paper, for private distribution to the members of the Society of Typographic Arts [and others]" [signed] N.W.F. [Norman F. Forgue]--Colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has sheet of paper laid in. From Japan Paper Company, New York. It states the cover paper is Natsume. The text paper is Arches. Not as stated in the Colophon.

OCLC:

2833368