Bizet and His World
Warren Chappell, 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Warren Chappell
- Author
- Mina Curtiss
- Trim size
- 6.25 x 9.25 inches; Bulk: 1 inch
- Pages
- 512, plus 24 of halftones
- Price
- $7.50
- Typefaces
- 11/13, 9/10, 8/8 Linotype Times Roman (text), 18, 30, 36, 60 Monotype Perpetua (display)
- Compositor
- Kingsport Press, Inc.
- Plate maker
- Kingsport Press, Inc.
- Printer
- Kingsport Press, Inc.
- Printing methods
- Electros (plates), letterpress, black only
- Papers
- Text: Warren’s 38 x 50 inches —100 Olde Style white, basis 50, illustration: Warren’s 38 x 50 inches —160 Cumberland Dull Ivory, basis 80
- Paper supplies
- Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons
- Binder
- Kingsport Press, Inc.
- Binding supplies
- Albert D. Smith & Co., Inc.
- Binding
- Bancroft’s Oxford 4380 blue, over .070 binders boards
- Stamping
- shelfback stamped in roll imitation gold foil, front and back in blind, in one impression
- Endpapers
- white 80-lb., halftones inserted as three 8-pp. signatures, light brown top stain
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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