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H.H. Richardson and His Office, Selected Drawings

Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director/designer
Larry Webster
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This is an exhibition catalog of the architectural drawings by H.H. Richardson in the Harvard College Library’s collection. The catalog was edited, and he exhibition prepared by, the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the library.

Special feature: Illustration pasted on front cover.

Credits
Production manager: Larry Webster
Compiler: James F. O’Gorman
Author: James F. O’Gorman
Size: 11 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 236 pages plus 16 page full color insert
Quantity printed: edition of 2,000
Price: $25.00
Typeface: Linotype Palatino, 10/12, with display in Linotype Palatino
Typesetter: Thomas Todd Company
Color separator: Techno-Colour Company, Inc.
Printer: Thomas Todd Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mohawk Supefine, 80 lb., Softwhite
Paper supplies: Century Paper Company
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son.
Binding materials: bound in Joanna Devon Blue on 98 pt. bineder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Curtis Tweedweave
Endpaper supplies: Colonial Paper Company
Publishers: Harvard College Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts (Cambridge, Massachusetts), David R. Godine, Publisher