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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Sheldon Cotler
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Special Trade Books

Description

This book takes the reader from the basics of electricity at the generating plant of the power company, through grounding and safety procedures, to the actual installation of new wiring. Instructions for replacing and upgrading switches, installing wall outlets and ceiling fixtures, fluorescent light dimmers for valance or cornice lights, putting in a new luminous suspended ceiling in the kitchen, etc., are included.

Credits
Designer: Herbert H. Quarmby
Production manager: Herb Sorkin
Author: Time-Life Books editors
Size: 8.5 x 10 inches
Pages: 128
Quantity printed: first printing of 264,000
Price: $7.95
Typefaces: Test: 8/10, 9/11, 10/12 Phototronic Optima, Display: Typositor Avant Garde Demi Bold
Typesetter: Walter T. Armstrong
Printer: Fawcette Printing Company
Printing method: Text: 3-coor web offset (8-page 4-color insert); Black/white and 4-color illustrations 150-line screen
Papers: Surfa Web Map, 70 lb. white, Boise Cascade, 65 lb. dull
Paper manufacturers: Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Boise Cascade
Binder: Fawcette Printing Company
Binding materials: Westvaco, white, made and supplied by Westvaco Corporation; on 88 pt. pasted oak board
Binding method: adhesive bound, square back
Endpapers: Tweedweave, royal blue
Endpaper manufacturer: Curtis Paper Company
Endpaper supplies: Bulkley Dunton Linde Lathrop
Publisher: Time-Life Books