Bizet and His World

Bizet and His World

Warren Chappell, 1958

Description

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

Credits

Designer
Warren Chappell
Author
Mina Curtiss
Trim size
6.25 x 9.25 inches; Bulk: 1 inch
Pages
512, plus 24 of halftones
Price
$7.50
Typefaces
11/13, 9/10, 8/8 Linotype Times Roman (text), 18, 30, 36, 60 Monotype Perpetua (display)
Compositor
Kingsport Press, Inc.
Plate maker
Kingsport Press, Inc.
Printer
Kingsport Press, Inc.
Printing methods
Electros (plates), letterpress, black only
Papers
Text: Warren’s 38 x 50 inches —100 Olde Style white, basis 50, illustration: Warren’s 38 x 50 inches —160 Cumberland Dull Ivory, basis 80
Paper supplies
Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons
Binder
Kingsport Press, Inc.
Binding supplies
Albert D. Smith & Co., Inc.
Binding
Bancroft’s Oxford 4380 blue, over .070 binders boards
Stamping
shelfback stamped in roll imitation gold foil, front and back in blind, in one impression
Endpapers
white 80-lb., halftones inserted as three 8-pp. signatures, light brown top stain
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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