The Great King, King of Assyria: Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Great King, King of Assyria: Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frans Hess, New York, New York, 1946

Description

Juror Notes

Certainly this is one of the most striking and unusual entries of the year. After on is surprised and pleased that the grave Metropolitan Museum sponsored so modern a picture book, one notices that the photography is by an eminent artist and the design is by a master typographer. The white on black printing is particularly suitable to the subject.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Frans Hess
Illustrations
photographs
Photographer
Charles Sheeler
Trim size
11 x 11.5 inches
Pages
48
Price
$5.00
Typefaces
Beton Medium [Intertype] 12 pt., 6 pt. leading, Beton Medium and Bold [Bauer] with 10 pt. Beton Bold captions [Intertype] (title page), Type Measure: 52 x 59 picas
Compositor
Huxley House
Printer
Beck Engraving Co., New York, N.Y. and Philadelphia, PA
Printing methods
sheet-fed gravure, letterpress
Paper
25% Rag Text [white, dull], 25 x 38–80/500
Paper supplies
Whiting Paper Co.
Binder
Murphy-Parker Co.
Binding materials
Gravure printed paper over boards
Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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