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Design Category
Book design, 1975
Art director
Allan Fleming
Collection
(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

A survey of universal language schemes over two centuries, addressed mainly to scholars interested in the history of ideas and the progress on knowledge.

Credits
Designer: Antje Linger
Production manager: John Ecclestone
Author: James Knowlson
Size: 5.75 x 9 inches
Pages: 312
Quantity printed: first printing of 1,500
Price: $17.50
Typefaces: text in VIP Aldus, display in foundry Palatino
Typesetters: University of Toronto Press, Cooper & Beatty
Printers: University of Toronto Press, Colourgraph Reproduction (illustration plates)
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Zephyr, 60 lb.
Paper manufacturer: Rolland Paper Company
Binder: T.H. Best Printing Company
Binding materials: Riverside linen, sandcolour, supplied by Columbia Mills; on 74 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Text, curry
Endpaper manufacturer: Strathmore Paper Company
Publisher: University of Toronto Press