Boston
P.J. Conkwright, 1975
Description
The problem here is obvious: color had to be ganged on one side of each signature and the colors within each signature had to kept consistent in tone. This is flat, not process, color, and in some cases the sheet went six times through Meriden’s single color presses. We chose Monotype Bell as being closest to Updike’s favorite, Mountjoye. We also love the Olde Style laid; it’s a paper for which even old D.B. would have felt a qualified affection.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1976)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- P.J. Conkwright
- Jacket designer
- John Anderson
- Illustrator
- Rudolph Ruzicka
- Production manager
- Donna Long
- Author
- Walter Muir Whitehill
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.75 inches
- Pages
- 144
- Quantity printed
- first printing of 7,500
- Price
- $12.50 hardbound, $6.95 paperbound
- Typeface
- Text (12/14) and display in Monotype Bell
- Typesetter
- Stinehour Press
- Printer
- Meriden Gravure Company
- Jacket printer
- Winthrop Press
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Papers
- Olde Style Laid, 80 lb., Jacket: Americana Mr. Vernon, 80lb. white
- Paper manufacturers
- S.D. Warren Company, Strathmore Paper Company (jacket)
- Paper supplies
- Carter Rice Storrs & Bement
- Binder
- Robert Burlen & Son
- Binding
- Blind panel embossed on binding and a Ruzicka engraving tipped in
- Binding materials
- Novelex Linen, #2764 salmon, made by Holliston Mills, supplied by Robert Burlen & Son; on 80 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, round back
- Endpapers
- Multicolor, gold
- Endpaper manufacturer
- Process Materials Corporation
- Endpaper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Publisher
- David Godine
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