My Life in Art

My Life in Art

Robert L. Cheney, 1958

Description

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Robert L. Cheney
Illustrator
Ludwig Bemelmans
Author
Ludwig Bemelmans
Trim size
9.5 x 12.5 inches; Bulk: 0.25 inches
Pages
96 (64 text, 32 illustrations.)
Price
$5.95
Typefaces
14/20 Linotype Janson (text), 24 Monotype Janson (display)
Hand lettering
Ludwig Bemelmans
Compositor
The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
Plate makers
The Murray Printing Company (black-and-white), Chanticleer Press, Inc. (color)
Printer
The Murray Printing Company (black-and-white); Chanticleer Press, Inc. (color)
Printing methods
offset, albumen (black-and-white); offset, deep-etch (color), text in black only, illustrations in 6 colors
Illustrations
Brush drawings; oil paintings; gouaches; reproduced in black-and-white line; black-and-white halftone (133 screen); 6-color process (150 screen)
Paper supplies
Perkins & Squier & Co., Chanticleer Press, Inc.
Papers
Text: Glatfelter’s 39 x 52 inches —149 Wove RRR Standard White, basis 70, color illustrations: unspecified European coated
Binder
The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
Binding
Spine of Holliston’s Sharon Vellum 2975 black, sides of Elephant Hide color #19 Copper, over .095 pasted boards, front contains illustration printed in 6 colors by Chanticleer Press\, Inc., varnished, and pasted into blanked panel
Binding supplies
Schlosser Paper Corporation
Stamping
shelfback stamped in copper and white foils in one impression
Endpapers
Beckett’s Hilo Cover green, 50-lb.; two 6-color illustrations also tipped onto pages in text section; flat back with board in spine
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
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