By Shaker Hands
Betty Anderson, 1975
Description
This book, celebrating Shaker art and life, is the work of a remarkable young artist who has lived and worked for two years at the Shaker Village in Canterbury, New Hampshire. In more than 250 drawings, whose purity of line embodies the spirit of the artifacts themselves, June Sprigg shows us the beautiful things the Shakers made. Her narrative…reveals how they lived, and the beliefs and feelings from which their art was derived.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1976)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director/designer
- Betty Anderson
- Illustrator
- June Sprigg
- Production manager
- Marylea O’Reilly
- Author
- June Sprigg
- Size
- 9 x 12 inches
- Pages
- 240
- Quantity printed
- first printing of 20,000
- Pre-press
- $15.00 hard-bound, $7.95 paperbound
- Typeface
- Text (13/16) and display in Linofilm Latinesque (Bembo)
- Typesetter
- New England Typographic Service
- Printing
- sheet-fed offset by Halliday Lithograph\, film supplied by New England Typographic Service
- Jacket printer
- Longacre Press
- Papers
- Wilco Opaque, 70 lb. natural, Jacket: Americana Alamo, tan, Jacket (paperbound edition): 12pt. coated stock
- Paper manufacturers
- Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Strathmore Paper Company (jacket)
- Paper supplies
- Willmann Paper Company
- Binder
- Halliday Lithograph
- Binding materials
- Bolton buckram, BNV-3889 tan (spine), made and supplied by Columbia Mils; Americana Alamo, tan (sides), made by Strathmore Paper Company, supplied by Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation; on 98 pt. pasted board
- Binding method
- Smyt sewn, round back
- Endpapers
- Wilco Opaque, 80lb. cream white
- Endpaper manufacturer
- Georgia-Pacific Corporation
- Endpaper supplies
- Willmann Papper Company
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
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