Handel
Sidney R. Jacobs, cover design based on designs by W.A. Dwiggins, New York, New York, 1946
Description
Juror Notes
Decoration is subordinated in this title to straightforward layout and good organization of the historical illustrative material. A sound piece of printing, this book is of reasonable thickness despite nearly 400 pages of text.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Sidney R. Jacobs, cover design based on designs by W.A. Dwiggins
- Illustrations
- photographs
- Author
- Herbert Weinstock
- Trim size
- 6.25 x 9.25 inches
- Pages
- 392
- Price
- $5.00
- Typefaces
- Caledonia [Linotype] 11 pt. on 14, Handlettered and Bulmer (title page), Type measure: 25 x 45.5 picas
- Compositor
- The Plimpton Press
- Engraver
- Beck Engraving Co.
- Printer
- The Plimpton Press
- Printing
- letterpress
- Papers
- Wove RRR [white, antique], 38 x 50–100/500, Dullofold white coated, 38 x 50–160/500 (engravings)
- Paper manufacturer
- P.H. Glatfelter Co.
- Paper supplies
- Perkins & Squier Co., Royal Paper Corp. (engravings)
- Binder
- The Plimpton Press
- Binding materials
- Bancroft Buckram [R], stamped in imitation roll gold
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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