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Design Category
Book design, 1975
Art director/designer
Ernst Roch
Collection
(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This book is the definitive work on printed Eskimo graphics from all settlements in the Canadian Arctic where prints are made. All prints are reproduced in their original colors.

Credits
Production manager: Ernst Roch
Authors: Patrick Furneaux, Leo Rosshandler
Size: 9.75 x 9.75 inches
Pages: 240
Quantity printed: first printing of 15,000
Price: $27.50
Typeface: Text and display in Monotype Univers 55
Typesetter: Fast Typesetters
Printer: Techno-colour Company (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Paper: Mastermark Velvet, 200 M white
Paper manufacturer: Plainwell Paper Company
Paper supplies: Lauzier, Little
Binder: Volumex
Binding materials: Bolton Buckram, BNV-3957, natural finish, made and supplied by Columbia Mills; on 100 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Jacket: Luxagloss offset enamel, 240 M, varnished, made by Domtar Fine Papers Ltd.
Publishers: Signum Press , Oxford University Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Barre Publishing Company