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The Apple and the Moth

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Illustrators
Iela Mari, Enzo Mari
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This picture book without text shows the life-cycle of the coddling moth. The project originated with Emme Edizioni, Milan, Italy. The title page and cover type were reset in the U.S.A. to anglicize the material and add the Pantheon imprint.

Credits
Typographer: Janet Townsend
Authors: Iela Mari, Enzo Mari
Size: 8.25 x 8.25 inches
Pages: 36
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $3.95
Typeface: display in Century Expanded Italic
Typesetter: Howard O. Bullard, Inc.
Printing method: Offset sheets
Paper supplies: Emme Edizioni, Milan, Italy
Binder: Economy Bookbinding Corporation
Binding materials: bound in preprinted paper supplied by Emme Edizioni on .085 pasted board
Binding method: side-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: Selfprinted
Publisher: Pantheon Books, Inc. (New York, New York)