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Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director
Cameron Poulter
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The book consists essentially of a narrative text tracing the history of Chicago from a sociological and historical point of view, woven together (visually as well as verbally) with more than a thousand illustrations, an equal number of lengthy legends, and four foldout panoramic views of the city at different points in history.

Credits
Designer: Joseph Alderfer
Authors: Harold M. Mayer, Richard C. Wade
Size: 8.25 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 538
Quantity printed: edition of 6,000
Price: $32.00
Typeface: English Monotype Plantin, 10/12 with display in Stempel Helvetica
Typesetter: Service Typographers, Inc.
Printers: Meriden Gravure Company, Chicago Imperial Printing Company (foldout inserts)
Printing method: offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine and Beckett Laid
Binder: Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Arkwright Homespun AHS 945 sides and Arco Vellum spine on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Slipcase: Linweave Dark Blue; sides printed in two colors on white enamel stock
Endpapers: Linweave Dark Blue
Endpaper supplies: Brown Company
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois)