Description
This book was set in Monotype Dante by Michael and Winifred Bixler in Skaneateles, New York. Dante was designed by the printer and typographer, Giovanni Marderstieg, and cut for Monotype by Charles Malin of Paris in 1953. The text was printed letterpress on one hundred percent rag, acid-free paper from the Arches paper mills in France. It was printed by Larry Welch on a Heidelberg flatbed press. The tritone of the Brandenburg Gate was printed by permission of the German Information Center. It was reproduced using a three hundred-line screen by Michael Arsenault and printed offset on a Heidelberg press by Thomas Arsenault. All of the printing was done at the Meriden-Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, Vermont.
Binding: Full red morocco. Top edges gilt. Title and Author gilt on front cover. Five raised bands on spine. White endpapers. Black linen clamshell box, lined with tan suede, and author gilt on spine. Also comes in full red linen, with top edges trimmed, and a red linen slipcase.
