Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis
Cameron Poulter, Chicago, Illinois, 1969
Description
The book consists essentially of a narrative text tracing the history of Chicago from a sociological and historical point of view, woven together (visually as well as verbally) with more than a thousand illustrations, an equal number of lengthy legends, and four foldout panoramic views of the city at different points in history.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1970)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Cameron Poulter
- Designer
- Joseph Alderfer
- Authors
- Harold M. Mayer, Richard C. Wade
- Size
- 8.25 x 9.25 inches
- Pages
- 538
- Quantity printed
- edition of 6,000
- Price
- $32.00
- Typeface
- English Monotype Plantin, 10/12 with display in Stempel Helvetica
- Typesetter
- Service Typographers, Inc.
- Printers
- Meriden Gravure Company, Chicago Imperial Printing Company (foldout inserts)
- Printing method
- offset
- Paper
- Mohawk Superfine and Beckett Laid
- Binder
- Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Arkwright Homespun AHS 945 sides and Arco Vellum spine on .080 binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn, round-backed
- Slipcase
- Linweave Dark Blue; sides printed in two colors on white enamel stock
- Endpapers
- Linweave Dark Blue
- Endpaper supplies
- Brown Company
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
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