Down to Earth: Mapping for Everybody

Down to Earth: Mapping for Everybody

Helen Gentry, 1944

Description

Juror Notes

So clearly has every detail of this book been thought out that it will repay study to the last feature. The table of contents, in two columns, has a little symbolic drawing to identify each chapter subject. The chapter headings, reversing the usual style, have their titles in upper and lower case (large, however) and their subtitles in smaller capitals. The text is arranged in two columns, with illustrations spotted carefully in them to balance across every two-page spread. Calligraphy rather than type is used in the illustrations. The whole book has a vigorous, breezy, characterful air about it. Although included in the “sponsored” group, this book is not subsidized.

Peter Beilenson, Paul McPharlin, Ernst Reichl (Jurors)

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1945)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Helen Gentry
Illustrator
Ralph Graeter
Author
David Greenhood
Trim size
8.5 x 11 inches
Pages
262
Price
$4.00
Typefaces
Caledonia, Caslon (display)
Manufacturer
H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company
Binding
Full cloth
Stamping
Ink
Publisher
Holiday House
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