Daphnis and Chloe

Jacques Schiffrin, 1949

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1950)

Discipline: Book design

Format: Book

Designer: Jacques Schiffrin
Illustrator: Aristide Maillol
Author: Longus
Translator: George Thornley
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: 175
Price: $3.75
Typefaces: 14/17 Lino Granjon, 16th century French initials and English Mono Goudy Old Style (title page)
Manufacturer: H. Wolff
Engraver: Beck
Printing method: letterpress, title page in two colors
Paper: Curtis Virgil D.E. Wove
Paper supplies: Stevens-Nelson
Binding materials: Holliston Zeppelin rust
Stamping: brown ink
Publisher: Pantheon

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