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Design Category
Book design, 1974
Designer
Dwight Agner
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The primary concern was to present the information as clearly and concisely as possible.  A marginal column was used for reference numbers (to give them a standard, easy-to-find-position), and for annotations. The use of ornaments originally drawn by Dwiggins provides visual identification of the subject of the bibliography. Not otherwise the book is not patterned after his own work.

Credits
Compiler: Dwight Agner
Production manager: Dwight Agner
Size: 6.75 x 10.75 inches
Pages: 100
Quantity printed: edition of 190
Price: $20.00
Typeface: hand-set Monotype Joanna, 12/14, with display in foundry Joanna
Typesetter: The Press of the Nightowl
Printer: The Press of the Nightowl
Printing method: letterpress
Paper: Colophon Text (Curtis), 70 lb., White
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: Robert Burlen & Son, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Riverside Linen Dark Red (spine) and French marbled paper (sides) on 88 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Strathmore Grandee Valencia Red
Publisher: The Press of the Nightowl (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)