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The Bauhaus

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director/designer
Muriel Cooper
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This monumental work represents the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictorial material ever published about the Bauhaus. The work consists of over 600 pages of text, in addition to back matter consisting of an extensive up-to-date bibliography, a list of former members of the Bauhaus and an index. There are about 800 illustrations, including 24 colorplates.

Credits
Author: Hans M. Wingler
Size: 10 x 14 inches
Pages: 670
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $55.00
Typeface: Linofilm Helvetica, 10/12 with display in Linofilm Helvetica
Typesetters: The Riverside Press, Inc., Book Graphics, Inc.
Printers: Halliday Lithograph Corporation, Verlag Gebr. Rasch & Company , Dr. Cantz Ache, Druckerei
Printing method: offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine High Finish
Binder: Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Colonial Lithox White on 125 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Slipcase: silkscreened on Bancroft Arrestox Buckram 19990 Black
Endpapers: Strathmore Rhododendron Cover Antique Black
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)