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

Description

The text contains six essays dealing with different aspects of Niagara’s history up to the year 1900 and the impact of Niagara on North America and the western world. Each essay is followed by an illustrations section containing reproductions of paintings, prints, early photographs, and maps. Designed for specialist and general reader.

Credits
Designer: Laurie Lewis
Authors: Ralph Greenhill, Thomas Mahoney
Size: 7.75 x 11 inches
Pages: 192
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $15.00
Typeface: English Linotype Pilgrim, 11/15, with display in Perpetua Light Titling
Typesetters: T.H. Best, Ltd., Cooper & Beatty, Limited
Printers: T.H. Best, Ltd., Ashton-Potter (illustration)
Printing methods: letterpress, offset (illustrations)
Papers: Champion Carnival Offset Grey, Georgian Offset Matte
Paper supplies: Buntin Reid, Ltd.
Binder: T.H. Best, Ltd.
Binding materials: bound in Holliston Book Duck on .010 Gear Board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Kraft Paper
Endpaper supplies: Globe Envelope Company
Publisher: University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)