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Statics Dynamics

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director
Jules Perlmutter
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

These books were written with a view to today’s engineering student as tomorrow’s practicing engineer who, in the exercise of his creative imagination and professional knowledge, can successfully combine theory and practice in the development of new structures, machines and devices.

Credits
Designer: Robert Goff
Illustration director: Jerry McCarthy
Illustrator: John Balbalis
Author: J.L. Meriam
Size: 6.75 x 10 inches
Pages: Statics: 400 pages; Dynamics: 496 pages
Quantity printed: edition of 13,000 each
Price: Statics: $11.95; Dynamics: $12.95
Typeface: Fototronic Times Roman, 10/15, with display in Fototronic Century Schoolbook Bold
Typesetter: York Graphic Services, Inc.
Printer/binder: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Sierratone Opaque, 50 lb., White
Paper supplies: Paper Sales Corporation
Binding materials: bound in Interlaken Linen Matte Blue on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor Quaker Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (New York, New York)