The Subtle Sense

The Subtle Sense

Will Ransom, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1946

Description

Juror Notes

One of the most charming and unusual title pages of the year prefaces this small book in which harmony of color, type and decoration is keynote. The jury wishes that the designer had not chosen to set the right-hand running heads in letter-spaced italic lower case, but the happy effect of the whole outweighs this personal idiosyncrasy. 

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Will Ransom
Author
Ralph Bienfang
Trim size
5.25 x 8 inches
Pages
168
Price
$2.00
Typefaces
Baskerville [Linotype] 11 pt., 2 pt. leading, Lettered (title page), 24 pt. Baskerville [Monotype], all lower case with Baskerville ornaments (chapter heads), Type Measure: 22x 39 picas
Compositor
University of Oklahoma Press
Printer
University of Oklahoma Press
Printing method
letterpress
Paper
Warren’s Olde Style [white, wove antique], 22 x 33–46/500, basis 60
Paper supplies
Western Newspaper Union
Binder
Brock & Rankin
Binding materials
Bancroft Oxford [#314 wrong side], stamped in brown
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
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