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The Rodgers and Hart Song Book

Design Category
Book design, 1951
Designers
Tom Torre Bevans, Helen Barrow, Doris Lee (cover)
Collection
(1952) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

Special feature: stained top

Credits
Illustrator: Doris Lee
Illustrations: wash and pen and ink
Author: Richard Rodgers (introduction)
Editor: Richard Rodgers
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Pages: xii, 243, col. plates
Price: $7.50
Typefaces: 14/18 Linotype Bodoni Book (text), ATF Bulmer (display)
Compositor: Composing Room
Engraver: M.O. Henning & Son (music)
Printer: Reehl Litho
Printing method: four color offset
Papers: Champion Wedgewood Offset, Curtis Tweedweave (cover and endpaper)
Paper supplies: Whitaker
Binder: H. Wolff
Binding materials: three-piece, pre-printed paper (sides), Bancroft Linen (spine)
Binding supplies: A.D. Smith
Stamping: foil, two colors
Publisher: Simon and Schuster (New York, New York)