Credits

Designer

Andor Braun

Translations

Franz Rosenthal

Author

Ibn Khaldûn

Trim size

6 x 9.25 inches; Bulk: 2 inches (vol. 1); 1 inch (vol. 2) ; 1.5 inches (vol. 3)

Pages

3 volumes, 600 (vol. 1) , 480 (vol. 2) , 616 (vol. 3) overall plus 17 plates of illustrations and a loose plate in pocket in vol. 3

Price

$18.50

Typeface

12/14, 11/13, 9/10 Monotype Bell (text) 9, 11, 18, 30 Monotype Bell (display)

Compositor

Kingsport Press, Inc.

Engraver

Beck Engraving Co., Inc.

Plate maker

Kingsport Press, Inc. (letterpress); Arthur Jaffe Heliochrome Co. (4-color heliogravure ills.); The Meriden Gravure Company (collotype ills.); Graphic Offset Co. (2-color offset ills.)

Illustrations

color and black-and-white photographs; line drawings; reproduced in 4-color process heliogravure; black-and-white collotype; 2-color offset line

Printing method

letterpress: electrotypes; heliogravure; collotype; albumen offset

Papers

Curtis’s 38 x 50 inches —120 Colophon white, basis 60

Paper supplies

Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons

Binder

Kingsport Press, Inc.

Binding

Bancroft’s Arrestox C 1300 beige over .098 chestnut boards

Binding supplies

Albert D. Smith & Co., Inc.

Stamping

shelfback and front stamped with genuine rolled gold foil

Endpapers

Curtis’s Tweedweave Text white, 60-lb., illustrations inserted as tips

Publishers

Pantheon Books, Inc., for Bollingen Foundation, Inc.