Letters from Titanic / George Behe

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2025.16.2

Description

Red cloth cover with title in white, and a white star. Unpaginated. Colophon at the back. Hand letterpress printed. Endpages are blueprints of the rooms for Titanic's first class. Opposite the title page is a postcard of the ship. Tucked at the back cover is a luncheon menu from April 14, 1912. Included are biographies of each writer, an introduction by George Behe and a foreword by Bob Richardson. Each copy contains a piece of letterpress printed ephemera, reproduced from original material, as well as a 12-page coloured plate section. 33 letters.

Collection

Howard Kistler

Dimensions

Height

25.5 cm

Width

17.2 cm

Parts

Book Luncheon menu tucked into back cover.

Book Details

Editor

George Behe

Volume/Number/Issue

Copy 004 of 250 copies

Edition

Letterpress Edition

Publisher

The History Press

Place Published

City

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

County

Gloucestershire

Country

England

Date Published

2022

Printer

Stonehouse Fine Press

Binding

Binding Type

Case binding

Binding Designer

Rooksmoor Press

Binding Notes

Rounded and backed case bound with glued on endbands and tipped-in fontispiece. Loose item is a facsimile of first class lunch menu.

Notes

From colophon - typeset in 'Monotype' imprint, Gill Sans metal type with Caslon display by Gloucester Typesetting Services. designed by Rooksmoor Press, letterpress printed at the Stonehouse Fine Press on Bockingford mould-made paper, hand bound at the craft bindery of Blissetts. Has a separate printed section at front of book of photographs.

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