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Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director/designer
Edward King
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The book is a first translation, which will have heavy use by analytical scholars requiring legibility and physical sturdiness. A straightforward approach was the solution for the line-for-line verse.

Special Features: Binding stamp made from woodcut illustration of Romanos rendered by Fritz Kredel from period source material.

Credits
Editor: Marjorie Carpenter
Size: 7.75 x 11 inches
Pages: 432
Quantity printed: edition of 2,000
Price: $22.50
Typeface: Monotype Bembo, 12/14 with display in Monotype Bembo
Compositor: William Clowes & Sons, Limited
Printer: Universal Lithographers, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, 70 lb., Softwhite
Binder: L.H. Jenkins, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Bradford Linen Natural on 98 pt. binder’s board
Endpapers: Strathmore Grandee Lugo Gray
Publisher: University of Missouri Press (Columbia, Missouri)