Early Children’s Books and Their Illustrators

Early Children’s Books and Their Illustrators

Stephen Harvard, 1975

Description

The problem from the publishing/design viewpoint was how to make an exhibition catalog look like a book. This was solved my full-measure section introductions, division by subject matter, and styling bibliographical descriptions to look as little as possible like catalog “entries”. The color work is extraordinary and even the black-and-white illustrations, printed in 300-line screen duotone, have more life and depth then we thought possible. A first-rate, non-didactic, general-interest text by Gerald Gottlieb certainly helped sell the book well beyond the “scholarly market.”

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1976)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Stephen Harvard
Photographer
Charles V. Passela
Author
Gerald Gottlieb
Size
9 x 11.75 inches
Pages
322
Quantity printed
first printing of 7,500
Price
$35.00
Typeface
Text in 14/18, 16/20 Monotype Bembo, Display in Centaur
Typesetter
Stinehour Press
Printer
Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method
back/white and 4-color sheet-fed offset
Paper
Ra text, special making, 90lb cream
Paper manufacturer
Curtis Paper Company
Paper supplies
Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder
Robert Burlen & Son
Binding materials
Kennett, #67130 red, made by Joanna Western Mills Company, supplied by Robert Burlen & Son; on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers
Artlaid text, 70 lb. tan
Endpaper manufacturer
S.D. Warren Company
Endpaper supplies
Carter Rice Storrs & Bement
Publishers
David Godine, in association with the Pierpont Morgan Library
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