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Description
This is a melding of illustration, historical data, theories and scientific analyses on the origin, nature and purpose of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The project required a skillful blending of editorial and pictorial elements, with designer, author and editor working closely together. The book was designed to be produced at a commercial price for a large scale.
Special features: Cover stamped with gold foil.
Credits
Designer: Gayle Jaeger
Jacket designer: Amy Isbey Duevell
Jacket typographer: York Typesetting Company, Inc.
Author: Peter Thomkins
Size: 8 x 10 inches
Pages: 432
Quantity printed: edition of 15,000
Price: $12.50
Typefaces: Linotype Helvetica, 9/12, with display in foundry Delphian Open Title , Jacket: composed in foundry Eurostile
Typesetter: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Jacket printer: Algen Press Corporation
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Warren 1854 Medium Opaque, 60 lb., Text shade
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: American Book – Stratford Press, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Arkwright-Interlaken Seta Brown on .88 binder’s board
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, found and backed with headbands
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor Bombay printed by Suburban Press, Inc.
Jacket: Northwest Mountie, 100 lb., sheet laminated
Paper supplies: Milton Paper Company, Inc.
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers (New York, New York)
