The Nutcracker
Warren Chappell, Charles Farrell, 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Warren Chappell, Charles Farrell
- Illustrator
- Warren Chappell
- Trim size
- 10 x 7.25 inches oblong; Bulk: less than 0.25 inches
- Pages
- 40
- Price
- $2.95
- Compositor
- Westcott & Thomson, Inc. (text); Clarke & Way, Inc. (display); Maxwell Weaner (music autography)
- Plate maker
- Reehl Litho Company, Inc.
- Printer
- Reehl Litho Company, Inc.
- Printing methods
- offset (deep-etch), 4 colors on one side of sheet, black only on reverse side
- Illustrations
- Key black line drawings on paper; wash separations by artist on blue proofs; reproduce in line and halftone (133 screen)
- Papers
- Mead’s 41 x 54 inches —163 Publishers’ Offset Vellum Finish, special Knopf shade, basis 70
- Paper supplies
- Schlosser Paper Corporation
- Binding supplies
- Albert D. Smith & Co., Inc.
- Binding
- Bancroft’s Arrestox A 5150 green, over .085 pasted boards
- Stamping
- shelfback stamped in aluminum foil, front stamped in aluminum foil and blind, back in blind, all in one impression
- Endpapers
- book is self-lined; printed similarly as the text; book is side-sewn with a concealed hinge; flat back with board in spine
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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