Author: WILSON, ADRIAN.
Title: The Design of Books.
Description: . London/New York, 1967. 160pp. With c. 230 illus. 4to. Cloth.*This work shows how to go about creating layouts for and implementing the production of many different kinds of books. The richly illustrated text outlines the book designing processes from the manuscript stage trough production. The methods and masterpieces of leading international designers are described and illustrated. The first chapter gives a survey of book design methods from the birth of printing to the present day. Also discussed are methods of type composition along with the major reproduction processes. There are chapters on the different types of paper, the secquence of elements in a books, design approaches, binding, jacket and paperback covers, trade book design, textbooks, and manuals..

Keywords: Presses, Design, Catalogues Ontypographie Typography Printing Imprimerie Typografie Druckkunst Drukkunst Bookbinding Bucheinbände Boekbanden Religatura Reliures Buchbinden


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