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Design Category
Book design, 1975
Designer
Carl F. Zahn
Collection
(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Catalog to accompany the museum’s major Bicentennial exhibition, a visual account of what was being done in the arts on the time—by Paul Revere and his contemporaries—and discussions of major personalities in Revolutionary and Tory Boston. Partially subsidized by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Credits
Production manager: Carl F.Zahn
Authors: Jonathan L. Fairbnks, Walter Muir Whitehill (introduction)
Size: 9.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 236
Quantity printed: first printing of 8,000
Price: $29.50
Typefaces: text in 9/11, 12/15 Linotype Sabon, display in foundry Sabon bold
Typesetters: Dumar Typesetting, Stempel Foundry
Separator: Tehnocolour Company
Printer: Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Lustro Offset Enamel Dull, 80 lb white
Paper manufacturer: S.D. Warren Company
Paper supplies: Carter Rice Storrs & Bement
Binder: Robert Burlen & Son
Binding materials: Roxite B, #53549 dark blue, made and supplied by Holliston Mills; on binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Carnival cover, antique finish, blue
Endpaper manufacturer: Champion Papers
Jacket: Lustro Offset Enamel Dull text, 100lb. plus Markote
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston