The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built

Eleanor Ehrhardt, New York, New York, 1973

Description

The pages of this book actually grow as the characters of this Mother Goose rhyme crowd into Jack’s house. The first page is very tiny, but each succeeding page is larger than the one before until the full cast appears on the biggest. The type grows in size, too. And on every page, the illustration fits into a panoramic background formed by the larger ones behind it.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1974)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director
Eleanor Ehrhardt
Designer/illustrator
Seymour Chwast
Editor
Eleanor Ehrhardt
Size
9.5 x 9.25 inches
Pages
22
Quantity printed
edition of 35,000
Price
$1.95
Typeface
Century Expanded (film), various sizes and leadings, with display in Egizio (film)
Typesetters
Lubalin, Burns & Company, Inc., Artintype Metro, Inc.
Printer/binder
Carvajal & Cia, S.A., Columbia
Printing method
sheet-fed offset
Paper
Foldkote (Federal) CIS, White, 8 pt.
Binding materials
bound in pre-printed coated stock on pasted board
Binding method
Novelty binding, square back
Publisher
Random House, Inc.
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