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

Description

This collection, all from public institutions in New York City, constitutes the largest group of Goya’s drawings outside the Prado, Madrid. They are presented in the order they were made, reproduced in exact size, and printed in colors that suggest the ink tones of the originals.

Credits
Production manager: Polly Cone
Author: A. Hyatt Mayor (introduction, comments)
Size: 8 x 11 inches
Pages: 14
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $15.00
Typeface: Linotype Janson, 11/14, with display in Monotype Janson
Typesetter: Fin Typographic Service, Inc.
Printer: The Meriden Gravure company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, 80 lb., Softwhite
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son
Binding materials: bound in G.S.B. 535 Saguero on 70 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Strathmore text Mist
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr
Jacket: Pastelle (Strathmore) Natural White
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York)
Distributor: New York Graphic Society, Boston