Bookmaking: the illustrated guide to design & production. / Marshall Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Marshall, 1921-2010.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Balance House book

A Balance House book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Makeup (Printing).

Book design.

Book industries and trade.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 399 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by R. R. Bowker Company, [1965]

Contents:

A. The Profession. Background; Function; Requirements; Opportunities

B. Basic Knowledge. Composition; Typography; Plates & printing; Paper; Illustration; Binding; Preparation for camera & press; Estimating cost; Schedules & records

C. Procedure. Analysis; Creative solutions; The basic decisions; The text plan; Sample pages; Ordering composition; Galley proofs & castoff; Layout of illustrations; Title page & part-titles; Frontmatter & backmatter; Page makeup & proofs; Ordering printing; Binding design; Ordering binding; Special design problems.

Notes:

"Copyright © 1965 by R. R. Bowker Company ..."

Title page printed in pink and black.

"The text type - 10 on 13 Electra - was set on a Linotype Electra No. 1 activated by a punched tape produced on a Teletypesetter and justified by a Linasee computer."

Color Illustrated front lining papers; red back lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-380) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok December 1965 New York".

OCLC:

576815