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The Nineteenth-Century Architecture of Saratoga Springs

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Martin Stephen Moskof
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The book is a scholarly pictorial study of the Victorian architecture of Saratoga Springs, with emphasis on preservation of landmarks—part of a series on architecture worth saving in New York State. Produced within a limited budget.

Designers’ Comments: The main design problem centered around trying to visually explain a text that was written in the technical jargon of the architecture historian. Secondly, most of the photos were shot in 35mm under relatively poor conditions.

Special Features: All text photos spot varnished.

Credits
Designers: Martin Stephen Moskof, Richard Helter
Photographer: Joe Alper
Picture editor: M.J. Gladstone
Authors: Stephen S. Prokopoff, Joan C. Siegfried
Size: 7 x 8 inches
Pages: 104
Quantity printed: edition of 2,500
Price: $3.00
Typeface: Linotype Helvetica Light, 9/12 with display in Stempel Helvetica
Typesetter: Crosby Typographers, Inc.
Plate maker: Graphi-Krome Corporation
Printers: Pembrooke Litho Corporation , Photogravure and Color Company (cover)
Printing methods: offset, sheetfed gravure (cover)
Paper: Mead Black & White Coated Text Dull, 80 lb., White
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son.
Binding methods: bound in mead Black & White Coated Cover Dull, 80 lb., White, paperback, Smythe-sewn, square-backed
Publisher: New York State Council on the Arts (New York, New York)