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Washington’s Mount Vernon

Design Category
Book design, 1973
Art director/designer
Robert Reed
Collection
(1974) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The magnificent home of the first president is presented through the seasons, photographically, in full color. The text is enriched by selections from the diaries and letters of George and Martha Washington. Title page and seasonal opening pages carry display type reproduced in Washington’s own hand, from his diary.

Credits
Photographer: Taylor Lewis, Jr.
Picture editor: Pace Barnes
Production manager: Karen Gillis
Author: Joanne Young
Size: 10 x 7 inches
Pages: 64
Quantity printed: edition of 35,000
Price: $6.95
Typeface: Videocomp Janson, 10/12, and Garamound Italic
Typesetter: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
Duplicate transparencies: Robert Crandall Associates, Inc.
Printer/binder: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Lustro Offset Enamel Dull (Warren), 80 lb., Ivory
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binding materials: bound in Holliston Sturdetan Tan on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Printed in Achilles Vellum Ivory
Endpaper supplies: Hobart-McIntosh Paper Company
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. (New York, New York)