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The Beautiful Island

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director
Alex Gotfryd
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

A surreal fantasy graphically expressed by means of collages of old engravings.

Credits
Designer: Earl Tidwell
Illustrator: Meg Rutherford
Author: Meg Rutherford
Size: 9 x 7.5 inches
Pages: 80
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $4.00
Typeface: Linotype Bodoni, 18/24 with display in Bauer Bodoni
Typesetter: Adcraft Typographers, Inc.
Printer: Mahony & Roese, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Oxford Smooth Offset blue-white
Binder: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Litho coated one side supplied by Baldwin Paper Company on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, square-backed
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc. (New York, New York)