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Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director/designer
Raymond M. Grimaila
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
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To recreate for the contemporary scholar and art-love, in an unusual visual and textual presentation, the original impact of Hogarth’s satirical picture-story of a fashionable eighteenth-century marriage in London, using a new translation of the brilliant commentary by the German polymath Lichtenberg, together with an introduction, full annotations, a lesser known French commentary on the series, a Hudibrastic poem on the same subject, and relevant extracts from Lichtenberg’s letters.
Designer’s Comments: The large page format dictated by the actual size reproduction of the Hogarth engravings afforded the opportunity of including marginal plate details in text, as a further aid to the reader.
Special Features: Six fold-out plates of Hogarth’s Marriage à la Mode series reproduced in actual size (17.75 x 14.5) from original engravings; full size reproductions of a second set of engravings from originals; reproductions of Hogarth’s paintings from which the engravings were made. Slipcase manufactured by J. Landowne Company.