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Romans & Barbaraians

Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director/designer
Carl F. Zahn
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Special Trade Books
Description

Catalog of a large loan exhibition. The chief problem was to get a vast amount of material into convenient and intelligible form, while maintaining scale and importance of relationships.

Credits
Production manager: Carl F. Zahn
Author: Department of Classical Art
Size: 8 x 11.5 inches
Pages: 256
Quantity printed: first printing of 1,500
Price: $12.00
Typefaces: Text in 9/11 VIP Syntax, Display in VIP Syntax
Typesetter: Typographic House
Color separator: Techno-colour Company
Printer: The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: Text: photo offset; Black/white illustrations: 300-line, photo offset; 4-color illustrations: 200-line, photo offset
Paper: Superfine, 80 lb. white smooth finish
Paper manufacturer: Mohawk Paper
Paper supplies: Carter Rice Storrs & Bement
Binder: Mueller Trade Bindery
Binding materials: Buckeye Cover, black, 80 lb., 2-color silk screen by Knowles Silkscreen Printing Company
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston