number designing book jacket von curl peter (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. 96 pp, foreword, introduction, conclusion, appendices + acknowledgments; color photos of jacket designs frontis; 48 pp b/w & color captioned illustrations in text & full-page, showing over100 book jackets; slight tanning, very good+; square 8vo, red tweed cloth, spine sunned, cuff bottom spine, scratches bottom front cover, light edge & corner wear, good+; laid in priced dust jacket flaps, International Collector's Library tri-fold color ad.

25.0 x 19.0cms 96pp b/w illusts very good hardback (no dustwrapper) The chapters are: the role of the designer; equipment & materials; book sizes; layout; lettering; treatment; visuals; the progress of a commission; an actual commission described; references; seeking a commission; methods of reproduction; designing for reproduction.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Cover shows signs of age and wear. Page 93: bottom right-hand corner creased. Generally good condition considering its age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

FIRST EDITION, extensively illustrated with various examples, some with use of colour-printing, pp. 96, 4to, original yellow boards, backstrip lettered in black, top edge faintly dustsoiled, free endpapers faintly browned, dustjacket by the author, slightly nicked at extremities, very good. An excellent treatise from an artist whose own work included designs for science fiction titles from Michael Joseph and Faber - his cover for Arthur Koestler's 'Age of Longing' (Collins 1951) is perhaps his finest in the medium, evincing his belief that 'lettering is important'. Curl avers that, whilst such design-work has attained the 'standing of a serious activity for the graphic artist', it remains generally the preserve of those at the beginning of their career (often their 'first freelance commission') - the level of remuneration in comparison to other work meaning that most will have to cultivate work in other fields, commercial or creative. He emphasises the value of a literary sensibility, and suggests that the best examples show a combination of 'selling factor [.] taste in design and idea [.] with the expression of the spirit of the book' - in which cases they become 'more than an ephemeral aid to selling'.