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Prints & People A Social History of Printed Pictures

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Designer
Peter Oldenburg
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The prime considerations were to produce a readable book and to relate the illustrations as closely as possible to the text. The illustrations themselves had to be of a “readable” size and at the same time produce a pleasant layout. Color was omitted to make the price conducive to wide relationship.

Special features: Cover stamped in gold foil.

Credits
Picture editor: Polly Cone
Author: A. Hyatt Mayor
Size: 7.5 x 9.75 inches
Pages: 496
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $20.00
Typeface: Linotype Palatino, 10/16, with display in foundry Palatino and Palatino Semibold
Typesetter: Finn Typographic Service, Inc.
Printer: The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine text, 70 lb., Special White
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: Tapley-Rutter Company
Binding materials: bound in Joanna Arrestox B Green on .088 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor Regular Gold
Paper: Mohawk Superfine Cover, 65 lb., Softwhite