Anno’s Alphabet

Anno’s Alphabet

Mioko Fujieda, Harriett Barton, New York, New York, 1974

Description

This is an unusual alphabet book, with each letter illustrated on a double-page spread. The border designs, different for each letter, contain hidden pictures of objects whose names begin with letter shown.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art directors
Mioko Fujieda, Harriett Barton
Designer/illustrator
Mitsumasa Anno
Production managers
Toshiji Horii, John Vitale
Editors
Ann Beneduce, Mioko Fujieda
Size
9 x 9.75 inches
Pages
64
Quantity printed
edition of 15,000
Price
$6.95
Typefaces
Text: painted letters, with display handlettered by Mitsumasa Anno, Back matter text composed in Century Oldstyle (film)
Typesetter
Ishima Studio
Printer
Seiko-Sha Printing Company, Ltd.
Printing method
sheet-fed offset
Paper
Espel (Japan Paper Manufacturing Company), 100 lb., White
Paper supplies
Okamoto Company, Ltd.
Binder
Kobayash Book Binding Company
Binding materials
bound in brown cloth (spine) and pre-preprinted Okayama paper (sides) on 98 pt. binder’s board
Paper supplies
Tamura Paper Trading Company, Inc.
Binding method
Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers
printed in New Cover (Tokyo Paper Mills)
Endpaper supplies
Tamura
Jacket
offset on Nippa Coated (Nippon Pulp Industry)
Publisher
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
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