Leonardo: Master of the Renaissance
George Hornby, New York, New York, 1942
Description
Juror Notes
In this book we find the work of a master illustrator: an artist sure of himself, sure of his subject, sure of his technique; who has as a result produced pictures which are wonderfully good to look upon and wonderfully illustrative of the book’s subject.
It is not often that one comes upon such remarkably good illustrations in what is called “an ordinary trade book.”
George Macy
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- George Hornby
- Illustrator
- William Sharp
- Authors
- Elisabeth Hubbard Lansing, Hendrick Willem Van Loon (introduction)
- Size
- 6 x 9.25 inches
- Pages
- 254
- Price
- $2.75
- Typefaces
- Linotype Janson, 12 point, 3 point leading, Deepdene Text and Caslon (title page), Caslon and Narciss initials (other display), 26 x 44 picas
- Compositor
- Golden Eagle Press
- Printers
- Golden Eagle Press (text), Photogravure & Color Company (illustrations)
- Printing methods
- letterpress (text), sheet-fed gravure (illustrations)
- Illustrations
- from wash drawings
- Paper
- Warren No. 66, textshade wove, sub. 70
- Binder
- Cornwall Press, Inc.
- Binding
- Smyth sewn, bound between boards covered with Athol Natural Mohawk
- Stamping
- rust ink (on binding)
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell Company
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