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  • Winners of the 2004 Student Awards in Book Collecting

Justin Gilbert (Victorian Serial Fiction: Penny Bloods, Penny Dreadfuls, and Boys’ Journals) Stephen Schroth (Children’s Series Books)

Honorable Mention Melissa White (Collection of The Wide, Wide World) [End Page iii]

Footnotes

This book was printed by letterpress from type cast on the Linotype by Heritage Letterpress, LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina. The typeface is Baskerville, a design by John Baskerville (1706–1775), English printer and type-founder. Linotype Baskerville is a weight-for-weight and curve for-curve copy of Baskerville’s celebrated printing type. The pattern for the cutting was a complete font of (approximately) 14 point, cast from Baskerville’s own matrices—exhumed at Paris, France, in 1929. The paper is 70-pound Glatfelter, an acid-free paper with a useful life of 300 years.

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