Piero Ventura’s Book of Cities
Grac Clarke, 1975
Description
This picture book of brilliant full-color paintings filled with intricate detail and humor shows how people live in eighteen different cities—where they work, how they get about, and the ways in which they entertain themselves. (All ages.)
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1976)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Grac Clarke
- Designers
- Piero Ventura, Grace Clarke
- Illustrator
- Piero Ventura
- Production manager
- Ada Vine
- Author
- Piero Ventura
- Editor
- Walter Retan
- Size
- 9.25 x 12.5 inches
- Pages
- 64
- Quantity printed
- first printing of 30,000
- Price
- $4.95
- Typefaces
- text in 14/17 Fototronic Bembo, display in Windsor Bold
- Typesetters
- York Graphic Services, Lettering, Piero Ventura (hand-lettering)
- Color separator
- Northwestern Color Graphics, division of George Banta Company
- Printer
- A. Hoen & Company
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Jacket printer
- Rae Publishing Co.
- Paper
- Southern offset, 80lb. white
- Paper manufacturers
- Union Camp Corporation, Mead paper Group (jacket)
- Paper supplies
- Richard Bauer
- Binder
- Economy Bookbinding Corporation
- Binding materials
- paper, 80 lb. white, coated one side, made by Mead Paper Group, supplied by Rae Publishing Company; on 95 pt. pasted board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Endpapers
- self-ends
- Endpaper manufacturer
- Union Camp Corporation
- Endpaper supplies
- Richard Bauer
- Jacket
- sheet laminated, 80 lb. coated one side
- Publisher
- Random House
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