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Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director/designer
Bradbury Thompson
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This traditional catalogue was part of a series extending over 48 years. It was designed to be a unique standard-setting example of the best books published the previous year. Designed by a classicist with no restrictions on the quality of the materials, because all were donated by the trade.

Credits
Studio assistance: Anagraphics
Photographer: H. Landshoff
Editor: Joyce Morrow
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Pages: 132
Quantity printed: edition of 3,225
Price: $10.00
Typeface: Linofilm Janson, 12/15 with display in Typositor Caslon 540 and ATF Caslon 471
Typesetter: Volk & Huxley, Inc.
Printer: Case-Hoyt Corporation
Printing method: offset
Paper: Westvaco Pinnacle Book Offset White
Binder: Russell-Rutter Company
Binding materials: bound in Arkwright-Interlaken ALo
Binding method: Smythe-sewn
Slipcase: J. Landowne Company
Endpapers: Beckett Cover Bamboo, printed by Herst Litho, Inc.
Endpaper supplies: Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
Publisher: The American Institute of Graphic Arts (New York, New York)