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Design Category
Book design, 1975
Art director/designer
Carl F. Zahn
Collection
(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Catalog to accompany an exhibition on life in the Far West before urbanization, presented through pictorial, decorative, and functional arts. Partially subsidized by grants from Phillip Morris, Inc. and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.

Special features:  Blind die stamping and red and blue foils stamped by Robert Burlen 7 Son; die by Walker Engraving

Credits
Illustrator: Richard Cheek
Production manager: Carl F. Zahn
Author: Jonathan L. Fairbanks
Size: 10.5 x 8.25 inches
Pages: 240
Quantity printed: first printing of 8,000
Price: $7.95
Typefaces: Text in 8/10, 10/16 Linotype Impessum, Display in foundry Impressum Bold
Typesetter: Dumar Typesetting
Color separator: Techno-colour Company
Printer: Leether Press
Printing method: Black/white and 4-color sheet fed offset
Paper: Patina, 70 lb. white
Paper manufacturer: S.D. Warren Company
Paper supplies: Carter Rice Storrs & Bement
Binder: Robert Burlen & Son.
Binding materials: Bulkton Metallic, 15 pt. silver, made by Sullivan Paper, supplied by Carter Rice Storrs & bement
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)