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

Description

The essence of this book is its documentation—through text, photographs, and scaled maps and drawings—of the development, from the Stone Age to the present of vernacular architecture in a well-defined region of southern Italy, in relationship to the resources of the land and the life of its people.

Credits
Illustrator: Edward Allen
Photographer: Edward Allen
Author: Edward Allen
Size: 7 x 10 inches
Pages: 224
Quantity printed: edition of 3,000
Price: $13.50
Typeface: Linotype Palatino, 9/13 with display in Stempel Palatino
Typesetter: Southern New England Typographic Service
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: offset
Paper: Warren Olde Style Wove
Paper supplies: Carter Rice Storrs & Bement, Inc.
Binder: The Colonial Press
Binding materials: bound in pre-printed Holliston Roxite C on 40 pt. red flexible board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Weyerhaeuser Torino Text Tawny
Publisher: The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)