Summer Mountains: The Timeless Landscape
Peter Oldenburg, 1975
Description
The purpose of this book was to present in depth a Chinese handscroll in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
Special features: 49 illustrations printed black with tint\, 8 duotone with same tint\, and a 5-color foldout
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1976)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Peter Oldenburg
- Production manager
- Marcie Kesner
- Author
- Wen Fong
- Size
- 10 x 13.5 inches
- Pages
- 76
- Quantity printed
- first printing of 6,000
- Price
- $25.00
- Typefaces
- text in 12/16 Linotype Palatino, display in foundry Palatino italic and Michelangelo
- Typesetter
- Finn Typographic Service
- Printers
- Meriden Gravure Compan, Colorgraphic Offset Company
- Printing method
- text and black/white illustrations: sheet-fed offset, color illustrations: sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Superfine Text Smooth, 100 lb. and 80lb. white
- Paper manufacturer
- Mohawk Paper Mills
- Paper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Company
- Binder
- Robert Burlen & Son
- Binding materials
- cloth, adobe, made by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation, supplied by Robert Burlen & Son; on 88 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Endpapers
- Grandee, Spanish gold
- Endpaper manufacturer
- Strathmore Paper Company
- Endpaper supplies
- Robert Burlen & Son
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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