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

Description

This book was compiled by the noted printer Robert Grabhorn over more than forty years of his life. It is a collection of proverbs, anecdotes, and facts about food and related subjects.

Special features: Each page is set within a Fournier border printed in blue. Vignettes are printed throughout and at chapter headings in red-brown; they are taken from wood engravings in Ecole des Cuisinieres, Paris, c 1870.

Credits
Production manager: Andrew Hoyem
Compiler: Robert Grabhorn
Author: M.F.K. Fisher (introduction)
Size: 5.75 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 176
Quantity printed: first printing of 425
Price: $37.50
Typefaces: Text in 10/12, 12/14 Goudy Monotype Garamont, Display in foundry Narciss and Type Upright Script
Typesetters: Mackenzie-Harris Corporation, Andrew Hoyem (handset)
Printers: Andrew Hoyem, Chan Quong (plates)
Printing method: letterpress
Paper: English Mould-made, 80 lb. cream
Paper manufacturer: Inveresk Paper Company
Binder: Schuberth Bookbindery
Binding materials: cloth, blue (spine); paper, grey printed in red and blue (sides); on #17 binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Publisher: Arion Press