Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. two tone cloth, gilt spine.xiii, 110 pages : portraits, (frontispiece) No D.J. as issued,"Printed and bound at The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Chicago Illinois and Crawfordsville, Indiana. Designed by Michael Stancik, Jr. The type for the text is twelve point Barbou, which R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company commissioned the Monotype Corporation Ltd. of London to cut under the direction of Stanley Morison and John Dreyfus specially for The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, published by the Yale University Press. It is based on the St. Augustine Ordinaire of Pierre Simon Fournier, whose types Franklin used in his press at Passy. In this volume it is combined with Frederick Goudy's Deepdene series. The book was printed by web offset lithography. The paper is Mohawk Paper Mills Vellum. The cloth for the binding was made by Industrial Coatings Group Incorporated. Colophon.

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Bookseller: Harry E Bagley Books Ltd (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1125558512
Title: To be a good printer : our four commitments
Author: Gaylord Donnelley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Publisher: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1999
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Imprimeurs E?tats-Unis,Printers United States R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company
Bookseller catalogs: Technology/Science; Americana;

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Colophon: The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
Vellum: Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Offset: A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...