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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