The George Brown Toy Sketchbook

The George Brown Toy Sketchbook

Quentin Fiore, Princeton, New Jersey, 1971

Description

This is The Pyne Press’ first published book. It was selected, designed, and manufactured with several aims in mind: to establish Pyne’s credibility as a quality book publisher, to please the design-conscious community of folk art and toy collectors, and to make available to a wide audience the very delightful art of another age.

Special features: Slipcase manufactured by Brick & Ballerstein, Inc., printed on Simpson-Lee Teton Text, 70 lb. The stencil designs on slipcase are adapted from toy illustrations in book. Backbone stamped in gold.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director/designer
Quentin Fiore
Editor
Edith F. Barenholtz
Size
10.75 x 13.75 inches
Pages
144
Quantity printed
edition of 5,000
Price
$25.00
Typeface
Linotype Bodoni Book, 14/16, with display in foundry Bauer Bodoni Titling
Typesetter
Connecticut Printers, Inc.
Color separator
Pride Offset Color Service
Printer
Connecticut Printers, Inc.
Printing method
Sheet-fed offset
Paper
Strathmore Impress, 80 lb., White
Binder
Tapley-Rutter Company
Binding materials
bound in GSB S/535 Natural on 98 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smythe-sewn, square back with headbands
Endpapers
Glatco, 80 lb.
Publisher
The Pyne Press
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