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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Paul Kennedy
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Not Exactly Books

Description

A reprint of a late nineteenth-century book that “appeals alike to young and old who will find a peculiar fascination in gradually discovering the countless phenomena with which the book abounds.”

Special Features:  grid printed by Sillcocks-Miller Company on 10 pt. clear vinyl, laminated over printed area, die-cut cover by Service Die Cutting, printed by Dover Publications on 16 pt. C.1.S., varnished

Credits
Designer: Isabel Campbell
Production manager: Leonard Roland
Author: Bliss, Sands & Company
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Printing method: Text: offset from the 1898 edition; Black/white illustrations: fine line from original edition
Paper: Offset, 60 lb.
Paper supplies: Milton Paper Company
Binder: Murray Printing Company
Binding method: saddle-stitched
Publisher: Dover Publications