Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Robert Cheney, New York, New York, 1971
Description
This is a melding of illustration, historical data, theories and scientific analyses on the origin, nature and purpose of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The project required a skillful blending of editorial and pictorial elements, with designer, author and editor working closely together. The book was designed to be produced at a commercial price for a large scale.
Special features: Cover stamped with gold foil.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Robert Cheney
- Designer
- Gayle Jaeger
- Jacket designer
- Amy Isbey Duevell
- Jacket typographer
- York Typesetting Company, Inc.
- Author
- Peter Thomkins
- Size
- 8 x 10 inches
- Pages
- 432
- Quantity printed
- edition of 15,000
- Price
- $12.50
- Typefaces
- Linotype Helvetica, 9/12, with display in foundry Delphian Open Title, Jacket: composed in foundry Eurostile
- Typesetter
- American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.
- Printer
- Murray Printing Company
- Jacket printer
- Algen Press Corporation
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Warren 1854 Medium Opaque, 60 lb., Text shade
- Paper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Binder
- American Book – Stratford Press, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Arkwright-Interlaken Seta Brown on .88 binder’s board
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn, found and backed with headbands
- Endpapers
- Lindenmeyr Multicolor Bombay printed by Suburban Press, Inc.
- Jacket
- Northwest Mountie, 100 lb., sheet laminated
- Paper supplies
- Milton Paper Company, Inc.
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
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