Albrecht Durer: Master Printmaker
Carl Zahn, 1971
Description
Selections of Durer etchings, engravings and wood cuts are shown in various states and condition. Different states of same subject are compared as indication of Durer’s technique and as a guide to comparing quality of impressions
Special features: All photography was done directly on offset camera from original Durer prints. Cover stamped in copper foil.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Carl Zahn
- Designers
- Barbara Hawley, Carl Zahn
- Illustrator
- Albrecht Durer
- Author
- Department of Prints & Drawings
- Size
- 8.75 x 11.5 inches
- Pages
- 320
- Quantity printed
- edition of 4,000
- Price
- $27.50
- Typeface
- Linofilm Palatino, 9/12, with display in Linofilm Palatino Semi-bold
- Typesetter
- Wrightson Typographers
- Printer
- The Meriden Gravure Company
- Printing method
- Sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Mohawk Superfine, 80 lb., Softwhite
- Paper supplies
- Carter Rice Storrs & Bement, Inc.
- Binder
- Robert Burlen & Son, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Arkwright-Interlaken natural Finish Buckram, Black, on 88 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
- Endpapers
- Lindenmeyr Multicolor Heather
- Jacket
- Strathmore Cover, 50 lb., Snow White
- Publisher
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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