Compendium for Literates

Compendium for Literates

Karl Gerstner, Muriel Cooper, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974

Description

The book’s purpose is to explore the alphabet; that is, to illuminate connections between language and writing. The form is inherently compatible with the purpose and content, because the book was designed by the author.

Special features: One page in text is die-cut, and one embossed. Book is printed one side, and each pair of pages has a untrimmed fold at the front edge.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art directors
Karl Gerstner, Muriel Cooper
Design
Karl Gerstner
Production manager
Arthus Niggli
Author
Karl Gerstner
Translator
Dennis Q. Stephenson
Size
5.75 x 5.75 inches
Pages
180
Quantity printed
edition of 5,000
Price
$15.00
Typeface
Diatronic Univers, 9/10, with display in Diatronic Univers
Typesetter
Fotosatz AG, Switzerland
Printer/binder
R. Weber AG. Switerland
Printing method
sheet-fed offset
Paper
Hochweiss Offset (Ziegler Papier), 65 lb., White
Binding materials
bound in Linson Milskin Black in binder’s board
Binding method
Perfect bound, square back
Endpapers
Yewells Cover Grey
Publisher
The MIT Press
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