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Zen Painting and Calligraphy

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Designer
Carl F. Zahn
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

Designer’s Comments: The small edition with quite lone explanatory text required a two column format; the Japanese paintings adapt well to this design scheme.

Credits
Authors: Jan Fontein, Money L. Hickman
Size: 7 x 11 inches
Pages: 228
Quantity printed: edition of 4,000
Price: $18.50
Typeface: Linofilm Palatino, 9/11 with display in Weber Time and Time Bold
Typesetter: Wrightson Typographers
Printer: The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, 80 lb., Softwhite
Binder: Robert Burlen & Son, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Holliston Zepplin Black on .080 Davey binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Mohawk Navajo Cover Black
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)