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This Fabulous Century 1870–1900

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Sheldon Cotler
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

Special Features: This volume is one of a series spanning the last 100 years. The pattern on binding cloth was specially designed for the book by Charles Mikolaycak; pattern repeated by Photo-Lettering, Inc., and printed by Pontiac Print Works, Inc. Spine of book is gold stamped.

Credits
Designer: Charles Mikolaycak
Editor: Ezra Bowen
Picture editor: Mary Y. Steinbauer
Size: 11 x 9 inches
Pages: 290
Quantity printed: edition of over 100,000
Price: $7.95
Typeface: Linofilm Century Expanded, 10/13 and 9/11, with display in Typositor Columbus
Typesetters: Kingsport Press, Inc., TypoGraphics Communications, Inc.
Color separators: The Lanman Company , Chanticleer Press, Inc.
Printer: Fawcett Printing Corporation
Printing method: offset
Paper: Mead High White Dull, 70 lb.
Binder: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Binding materials: bound in preprinted Columbia Bolton (sides) and Kivar Black (spine), on .088 pasted oak board
Binding method: adhesive bound, round-backed
Endpapers: Curtis Tweedweave Purple
Endpaper supplies: Bulkley Dunton Linde Lathrop, Inc.
Publisher: Time-Life Books (New York, New York)