College Algebra
Ronald Murray, Edward Karr (cover design), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1946
Description
Juror Notes
The jury liked the cover design of this book, together with the clean modern treatment of diagrams and formulae. But they were not so happy with the transition from the handsome lettering on the binding to the sans-serif on the half title and succeeding pages.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Ronald Murray, Edward Karr (cover design)
- Illustrator
- James Pfeiffer
- Illustrations
- Pen and ink drawings (engravings)
- Author
- M. Wiles Keller
- Trim size
- 5.75 x 8.5 inches
- Pages
- xii, 471
- Price
- $3.00
- Typefaces
- Baskerville No. 353 [Monotype] 10 pt., 2 pt. leading, 48 pt. Kabel (title page), 60 pt. and 10 pt. Kabel (other display), Type Measure: 26 x 42 picas
- Compositor
- The Riverside Press
- Engraver
- Lincoln Engraving Co.
- Printer
- The Riverside Press
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Paper
- Hermes Super, 35 x 47–87
- Paper supplies
- Crocker, Burbank Papers, Inc.
- Binder
- The Riverside Press
- Binding materials
- Columbia Minerva Vellum [#51b], stamped in imitation gold
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
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