My Life in Art
Robert L. Cheney, 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Robert L. Cheney
- Illustrator
- Ludwig Bemelmans
- Author
- Ludwig Bemelmans
- Trim size
- 9.5 x 12.5 inches; Bulk: 0.25 inches
- Pages
- 96 (64 text, 32 illustrations.)
- Price
- $5.95
- Typefaces
- 14/20 Linotype Janson (text), 24 Monotype Janson (display)
- Hand lettering
- Ludwig Bemelmans
- Compositor
- The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
- Plate makers
- The Murray Printing Company (black-and-white), Chanticleer Press, Inc. (color)
- Printer
- The Murray Printing Company (black-and-white); Chanticleer Press, Inc. (color)
- Printing methods
- offset, albumen (black-and-white); offset, deep-etch (color), text in black only, illustrations in 6 colors
- Illustrations
- Brush drawings; oil paintings; gouaches; reproduced in black-and-white line; black-and-white halftone (133 screen); 6-color process (150 screen)
- Paper supplies
- Perkins & Squier & Co., Chanticleer Press, Inc.
- Papers
- Text: Glatfelter’s 39 x 52 inches —149 Wove RRR Standard White, basis 70, color illustrations: unspecified European coated
- Binder
- The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
- Binding
- Spine of Holliston’s Sharon Vellum 2975 black, sides of Elephant Hide color #19 Copper, over .095 pasted boards, front contains illustration printed in 6 colors by Chanticleer Press\, Inc., varnished, and pasted into blanked panel
- Binding supplies
- Schlosser Paper Corporation
- Stamping
- shelfback stamped in copper and white foils in one impression
- Endpapers
- Beckett’s Hilo Cover green, 50-lb.; two 6-color illustrations also tipped onto pages in text section; flat back with board in spine
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
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