The Book of Job, from the King James Bible
Harry Duncan, 1944
Description
Juror Notes
Not a perfect book, this has some faults of the amateur bookmaker, which find compensation in its qualities of vigor, unorthodoxy, and personal spirit. The wood-cuts are given a sense of depth by combining light and heavy makeready. The type and paper match them in strength, but the calf back and gold-sprinkled paper sides of the binding lack the ruggedness of the body.
Peter Beilenson, Paul McPharlin, Ernst Reichl (Jurors)
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1945)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Harry Duncan
- Illustrator
- Gustav Wolf
- Illustrations
- Wood-engravings
- Trim size
- 8.25 x 10.5 inches
- Pages
- 75
- Quantity printed
- 300 copies
- Price
- $12.50
- Typefaces
- Poliphilus, Blado
- Compositors
- The Cummington Press, The Plimpton Press
- Printer
- The Cummington Press
- Binder
- John W. Marchi
- Binding
- calf back, paper sides
- Stamping
- Blind-stamped (backbone)
- Publisher
- The Cummington Press
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