The Police Gazette
Helen Barrow, New York, New York, 1972
Description
This is a journalistic social commentary of the years from 1878 to the turn of the century. The woodcut and steel engraving illustrations were shot from original copies of The Police Gazette in fine-line by Scott Screen Prints.
Special Features: Two-color sixteen-page insert is facsimile of an issue of The Police Gazette. Pink Color is overall benday – 20% of PMS 213 (pink color could not be matched from available papers.)
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1973)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Helen Barrow
- Jacket art director
- Frank Metz
- Designer
- Jack Jaget
- Jacket designer
- Paul Bacon
- Illustrations
- woodcuts from the original gazette
- Picture editor
- Elise Sachs
- Jacket typographer
- Composing Room + Graphic Arts Typographers, Inc.
- Editors
- Gene Smith, Jayne Barry Smith
- Size
- 8.75 x 12 inches
- Pages
- 192 + 16 page insert
- Quantity printed
- edition of 12,500
- Price
- $12.50
- Typeface
- Linotype De Vinne, 10/12, with display in various Photo Typositor and foundry faces
- Typesetters
- American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., Allied Typographers and Boro Typographers, Inc.
- Printer
- Murray Printing Company
- Printing method
- Sheet-fed offset
- Jacket printer
- The Chaucer Press, Inc.
- Paper
- Alpine Opaque Vellum (Georgia-Pacific), 60 lb., Natural
- Paper supplies
- Willco Papers, Inc.
- Binder
- The Book Press, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Joanna Kennett Sand (spine) and Curtis Tweedeweave (sides) on 95. Pt. pasted board
- Endpapers
- Plain white
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
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