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The Violin: History, Aesthetics, Manufacture and Acoustics

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Designer
Peter Dorn
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This is a scholarly book designed to appeal not only to a small circle of violin experts but to music lovers generally.

Credits
Author: Emile Leipp
Size: 8.5 x 11.25 inches
Pages: 128
Quantity printed: edition of 3,000
Price: $12.50
Typeface: Monotype Bembo, 12/14 and 10/12, with display in Monotype Univers and Bembo
Typesetters: University of Toronto Press, Cooper & Beatty, Limited
Printer: University of Toronto Press
Printing method: offset
Paper: Alliance Suedetone Offset Enamel
Binder: Bryant Press
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Riverside Lithox on .010 Gear board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: Domtar Plainfield Offset
Endpaper supplies: Buntin Reid, Ltd.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)