Dandelion Cottage
Maurice S. Kaplan, Maurice S. Kaplan and Mary Stevens (cover design), New York, New York, 1946
Description
Juror Notes
This entry proves that a trade book can be as light and attractive as a volume of the best juvenile or press book. Soundly planned within, this volume enjoys a particularly decorative cover and end papers to catch the eye of the prospective purchaser. The title page and chapter openings are skillfully handled.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Maurice S. Kaplan, Maurice S. Kaplan and Mary Stevens (cover design)
- Illustrator
- Mary Stevens
- Illustrations
- Pen and ink drawings (engravings)
- Author
- Carroll Watson Rankin
- Trim size
- 5.25 x 8 inches
- Pages
- 229
- Price
- $2.00
- Typefaces
- Granjon [Linotype] 12 pt., 3 pt. leading, Granjon and Bernhard Tango [A.T.F.] (title page), Bernhard Tango [A.T.F.] (chapter heads), Type Measure: 21 x 37 picas
- Compositor
- Quinn & Boden Co., Inc.
- Engraver
- Eagle Engraving Co.
- Printers
- Quinn & Boden Co., Inc., Duenwald Printing Corp. (binding)
- Printing method
- letterpress, offset (binding)
- Paper
- Penn Eggshell [white], 45 x 66–141/500
- Paper supplies
- The Mead Sales Co., Inc.
- Binder
- Quinn & Boden Co., Inc.
- Binding materials
- Cloth back, Interlaken Vellum De Luxe [#38.5], paper sides printed by offset
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
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