Washington’s Mount Vernon

Washington’s Mount Vernon

Robert Reed, New York, New York, 1973

Description

The magnificent home of the first president is presented through the seasons, photographically, in full color. The text is enriched by selections from the diaries and letters of George and Martha Washington. Title page and seasonal opening pages carry display type reproduced in Washington’s own hand, from his diary.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1974)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director/designer
Robert Reed
Photographer
Taylor Lewis, Jr.
Picture editor
Pace Barnes
Production manager
Karen Gillis
Author
Joanne Young
Size
10 x 7 inches
Pages
64
Quantity printed
edition of 35,000
Price
$6.95
Typeface
Videocomp Janson, 10/12, and Garamound Italic
Typesetter
Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
Duplicate transparencies
Robert Crandall Associates, Inc.
Printer/binder
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Printing method
sheet-fed offset
Paper
Lustro Offset Enamel Dull (Warren), 80 lb., Ivory
Paper supplies
Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binding materials
bound in Holliston Sturdetan Tan on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers
Printed in Achilles Vellum Ivory
Endpaper supplies
Hobart-McIntosh Paper Company
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
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