AIGA Design Archives: The Brown Wasps

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Design Category

Book design, 1969

Art director/designer

Walter Hamady

Collection

(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Credits

Illustrator: Jack Beal
Author: Loren Eiseley
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 60
Quantity printed: edition of 256
Price: $30.00
Typeface: Handset Stempel Palatino, 12 pt./1 pt. lead with display in Stempel Palatino Italic
Typesetter: The Perishable Press Limited
Printer: Walter Hamady
Printing method: hand letterpress
Paper: hand-made Shadwell paper by Walter Hamady, and J.B. Green Chartr Oak
Paper supplies: Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
Binder: Douglas Cockerell & Son
Binding materials: bound in Cockerell Marbled Papers
Binding method: hand-sewn on tapes, square-backed
Publisher: The Perishable Press Limited (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin)