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Design Category
Book design, 1974
Designer
C. Freeman Keith
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year

Credits
Photographer: Richard Benson
Production manager: Leslie George Katz
Author: Lincoln Kirstein
Size: 8.5 x 8.75 inches
Pages: 84
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $8.95
Typeface: Monotype Bembo, 12/15, with display in Monotype Castellar
Typesetter: The Stinehour Press
Printers: The Stinehouse Press, The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: Text: letterpress, illustrations: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine Text, 80 lb., Softwhite Eggshell
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: New Hampshire Bindery
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Bolton Black on 82 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Miliani Ingres (Process materials) Calabrian Black
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Jacket: Clear acetate over jacket
Stamping: Welsh Gold Stamping (gold stamp)
Publisher: Eakins Press Foundation (New York, New York)