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Architecture of Middle Tennessee

Design Category
Book design, 1974
Designer
Gary G. Gore
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The book is a permanent record in the form of descriptions, photographs, and drawings, of the National Park Service’s Historical American Buildings Survey of Middle Tennessee.

Special feature: Front cover has blind embosses panel. With printed label tipped on to panel.

Credits
Photographer: Jack E. Boucher
Production manager: Gary G. Gore
Editors: Thomas B. Brumbaugh, Martha I. Strayhorn, Gary G. Gore
Size: 8.5 x 10.75 inches
Pages: 188
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $17.95
Typeface: Linotype Palatino, 10/12, with display in foundry Palatino
Typesetter: Typoservice Corporation
Printer: The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mowawk Superfine Vellum, 70 lb., Ivory
Binder: Nicholstone Book Bindery
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Milbank Linen Brown on 88 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Strathmore Grandee Basque Brown
Endpaper supplies: Clements Paper Company
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (Nashville, Tennessee)