Manly Health and Training
Regan Arts, New York, New York, 2016
Description
Juror Notes
Playing off the idea of classical newsprint, these wrapped covers are like trailers for the book inside. The cropped nameplate is a particularly engaging choice. —Jessica Helfand
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2016
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book, Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- Regan Arts
- Creative director
- Richard Ljoenes
- Art director
- Richard Ljoenes
- Designer
- Richard Ljoenes
- Jacket designer
- Richard Ljoenes
- Jacket
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), age 37, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison., July 1854, Morgan Library & Museum, Illustration of Manly Strength (front jacket) and gymnastic exercises (back jacket): The Illustrated Family Gymnasium by Russell Thacher Trall (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1857), courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., “Manly Vigor” ad, in the Morning Appeal: (Carson City, Nev.), May 16, 1896, Two Men Boxing, Fistiana: Or, The Oracle of the Ring (London: Wm. Clement, Jun., 1841), Baseball shoes: Ward B. Snyder’s Catalogue of Gymnasium Goods, Air Guns, etc. (New York, 1875), Frying Pot: Miss Parloa’s Young Housekeeper by Maria Parloa (Boston: Dana Estes & Co, 1893)
- Production director
- Kurt Andrews
- Author
- Walt Whitman
- Including text by
- Zachary Turpin (introduction)
- Editor
- Kathy Huck
- Trim size
- 5.5 x 8 inches
- Jacket printer
- Coral Graphics
- Paper
- Mohawk Via Felt
- Publisher
- Regan Arts
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