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Faces

Design Category
Book design, 1976
Designer
Massimo Vignelli
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Special Trade Books
Description

The aim was to provide superb reproduction and a magnificent format worth of 380 of the best portraits in photography since 1840 and a full-length text describing the photographer, the subject, and the historic background of both.

Credits
Production manager: Gudrun Buettner
Author: Ben Maddow
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Pages: 544
Quantity printed: first printing of 15,000
Price: $35.00
Typefaces: Text in 14/15 Linotype Garamond #3, Display in Photo-Typositor Garamond
Typesetters: American Book-Stratford Press, Royal Composing Room (Title Faces set)
Printer/binder: Dai Nippon Printing
Printing method: Text: 1-color offset; Black/white illustrations: 2-color offset
Paper: Satin, 128 gram, whitecoated
Paper manufacturer: Dai Nippon Printing
Binding materials: ASAHI 1087-A, black, supplied by Dai Nippon Printing; on 3mm. binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: 157 gram, black
Endpaper supplies: Dai Nippon Printing
Publisher: New York Graphic Society/Chanticleer Press Edition