The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

Warren Chappell, Charles Farrell, 1958

Description

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designers
Warren Chappell, Charles Farrell
Illustrator
Warren Chappell
Trim size
10 x 7.25 inches oblong; Bulk: less than 0.25 inches
Pages
40
Price
$2.95
Compositor
Westcott & Thomson, Inc. (text); Clarke & Way, Inc. (display); Maxwell Weaner (music autography)
Plate maker
Reehl Litho Company, Inc.
Printer
Reehl Litho Company, Inc.
Printing methods
offset (deep-etch), 4 colors on one side of sheet, black only on reverse side
Illustrations
Key black line drawings on paper; wash separations by artist on blue proofs; reproduce in line and halftone (133 screen)
Papers
Mead’s 41 x 54 inches —163 Publishers’ Offset Vellum Finish, special Knopf shade, basis 70
Paper supplies
Schlosser Paper Corporation
Binding supplies
Albert D. Smith & Co., Inc.
Binding
Bancroft’s Arrestox A 5150 green, over .085 pasted boards
Stamping
shelfback stamped in aluminum foil, front stamped in aluminum foil and blind, back in blind, all in one impression
Endpapers
book is self-lined; printed similarly as the text; book is side-sewn with a concealed hinge; flat back with board in spine
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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