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Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director/designer
Jane Byers Bierhorst
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Special features: Front cover blind embossed and stamped in silver foil.

Credits
Illustrations: period engravings
Picture editors: John Pierhorst, Jane Byers Bierhorst
Editor: John Bierhorst
Size: 6 x 8.5 inches
Quantity printed: edition of 8,000
Price: $4.95
Typefaces: Monotype Emerson, 12/15, with display in English Monotype Perpetua , Jacket: Caslon 540
Typesetter: Westcott & Thomson, Inc.
Printer/binder: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Philips Offset Company
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Glatfelter Old Forge Laid, 65 lb., Cream
Paper supplies: Perkins & Squier Company
Binding materials: bound in GSB S/535 Venetian Brown on .085 pasted board
Binding method: Smyth-sewn, round and backed
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Rust supplied by the bindery
Jacket: Philcote Offset, 80 lb. White, supplied by Milton Paper Company, Inc.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, New York)