Summer Mountains:  The Timeless Landscape

Summer Mountains: The Timeless Landscape

Peter Oldenburg, 1975

Description

The purpose of this book was to present in depth a Chinese handscroll in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

Special features: 49 illustrations printed black with tint\, 8 duotone with same tint\, and a 5-color foldout

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1976)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Peter Oldenburg
Production manager
Marcie Kesner
Author
Wen Fong
Size
10 x 13.5 inches
Pages
76
Quantity printed
first printing of 6,000
Price
$25.00
Typefaces
text in 12/16 Linotype Palatino, display in foundry Palatino italic and Michelangelo
Typesetter
Finn Typographic Service
Printers
Meriden Gravure Compan, Colorgraphic Offset Company
Printing method
text and black/white illustrations: sheet-fed offset, color illustrations: sheet-fed offset
Paper
Superfine Text Smooth, 100 lb. and 80lb. white
Paper manufacturer
Mohawk Paper Mills
Paper supplies
Lindenmeyr Paper Company
Binder
Robert Burlen & Son
Binding materials
cloth, adobe, made by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation, supplied by Robert Burlen & Son; on 88 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers
Grandee, Spanish gold
Endpaper manufacturer
Strathmore Paper Company
Endpaper supplies
Robert Burlen & Son
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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