Pedro de la Torre: Doctor to Conquerors

Pedro de la Torre: Doctor to Conquerors

Dwight Agner, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1974

Description

This is a scholarly narrative based on manuscripts from 16th century Mexico during Spanish rule. The book includes reproductions of a few manuscripts, and partial transcriptions and translations. The major problem was to make the various elements compatible.

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

Credits

Designer
Dwight Agner
Production manager
Dwight Agner
Author
John Tate Lanning
Size
5.5 x 8.5 inches
Pages
160
Quantity printed
edition of 2,000
Price
$7.50
Typeface
Linotype Aster, 10/13, with display in foundry American Uncial
Typesetter
Kingsport Press, Inc.
Printer
Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method
sheet-fed offset
Paper
Old Style Wove (Warren), 60 lb., White
Binder
Halliday
Binding materials
bound in Holliston Zeppelin Black on 70 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers
plain white
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
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