Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch, revised edition with a postscript
John Begg, 1947
Description
Juror Notes
A successfully produced pocket-sized book with informal, delightful typography.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1948)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- John Begg
- Endpaper designer
- Jeanyee Wong
- Author
- Bernard Shaw (postscript)
- Trim size
- 4.25 x 7 inches
- Pages
- lxxiv, 261 pages
- Price
- $1.75
- Typefaces
- English Monotype Plantin #110, 9 pt., 2 pt. leading, English Monotype 24 pt. Bembo (display), Type Measure: 20 x 35 picas
- Compositor
- J.S. Cushing Company
- Printer
- Berwick & Smith Company
- Printing method
- letterpress from plates
- Paper
- Warren's Cumberland Publisher's (Text-shade)
- Paper supplies
- H. Lindenmeyr & Sons
- Binder
- C.B. Fleming Company
- Binding materials
- Cloth, Bancroft Oxford #37
- Stamping
- imitation roll gold
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (The World’s Classics. Galaxy Edition)
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