Compendium for Literates
Karl Gerstner, Muriel Cooper, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974
Description
The book’s purpose is to explore the alphabet; that is, to illuminate connections between language and writing. The form is inherently compatible with the purpose and content, because the book was designed by the author.
Special features: One page in text is die-cut, and one embossed. Book is printed one side, and each pair of pages has a untrimmed fold at the front edge.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art directors
- Karl Gerstner, Muriel Cooper
- Design
- Karl Gerstner
- Production manager
- Arthus Niggli
- Author
- Karl Gerstner
- Translator
- Dennis Q. Stephenson
- Size
- 5.75 x 5.75 inches
- Pages
- 180
- Quantity printed
- edition of 5,000
- Price
- $15.00
- Typeface
- Diatronic Univers, 9/10, with display in Diatronic Univers
- Typesetter
- Fotosatz AG, Switzerland
- Printer/binder
- R. Weber AG. Switerland
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Hochweiss Offset (Ziegler Papier), 65 lb., White
- Binding materials
- bound in Linson Milskin Black in binder’s board
- Binding method
- Perfect bound, square back
- Endpapers
- Yewells Cover Grey
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
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