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Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924–1974

Design Category
Book design, 1974
Designer
Stephen Harvard
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The Library’s acquisitions are herein grouped by category: Early Printed Books, Autograph Letters & Manuscripts, Drawings, and Mediaeval & Renaissance Manuscripts. Each volume contains a comprehensive introduction, and annotated catalog.

Special feature: The four volumes are boxed in a slipcase manufactured by J. Landowne Company, Inc. Slipcase is covered in the same design as the printed endpapers: Cockerell #9 pattern offset on Curtis Rag.

Credits
Production managers: C. Freeman Keith, The Stinehour Press
Authors: Charles Ryskamp, Herbert Cahoon, Felice Stamfle, Paul Needham, William Voelkle
Size: 4 clipcased volumes, each 9 x 11.75 inches
Pages: 108 to 140 pages each
Quantity printed: edition of 2,500
Price: $3,500
Typeface: Monotype Bembo, 16/20, with display in Monotype Perpetua
Typesetter: The Stinehour Press
Printer: The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Curtus Rag, 90 lb., White
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: New Hampshire Bindery
Binding materials: softbound in Curtis Tweedweave Cover, 80 lb., Charcoal
Paper supplies: Colonial Paper Company
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Strathmore Impress Text
Publisher: The Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, New York)