The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon

The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon

Algot Ringstrom (series), followed through by Joseph Weiler, 1955

Description

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1956)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designers
Algot Ringstrom (series), followed through by Joseph Weiler
Diagram artist
Mark Hasselriis
Editor
Natasha Rambova
Size
9.5 x 12 inches
Pages
170
Price
$17.50
Typefaces
Linotype Scotch No. 2, 12 pt., leaded 4 pts. (text), Bulmer (display)
Typesetter
Charles D. O’Brien, Inc.
Engravers
Meriden Gravure Company (collotype), Bingham Photoengraving Company (heliochrome)
Printer
The Marchbanks Press
Printing methods
letterpress, collotype (plates 1-64), heliochrome (frontispiece and gold facsimile plates)
Papers
Curtis’s Special Book, 70 lb. (text), Curtis’s Colophon Collotype, Lee’s 50% Rag Collotype Facsimiles, Linton’s Document Index (fold-out diagrams)
Paper supplies
Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons
Binder
Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
Binding materials
Three-piece, Bancroft’s Buckram (spine), Bancroft’s Arrestox C (sides)
Binding supplies
Albert D. Smith & Company, Inc.
Publisher
Pantheon Books, Inc. (Bollingen Series XL, vol. 2)
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