Object Details
- Description
- Book jacket design for The Gothic Cathedral by Otto von Simson, published by Pantheon. Design features a photographic reproduction of columns and vaults and green and black text against a yellow background. Printed in green, left of the front cover: the gothic cathedral. In black, below: by / Otto von Simson; in green: BOLLINGEN SERIES XLVIII; in black: PANTHEON. On spine: title in green, author's last name in black, and Bollingen cross logo in green at top and bottom. Back cover is solid yellow. Verso includes flap designs with black text and white backgrounds: left flap contains a description of the book, author bio, and price ($6.50); right flap contains information about the series.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Author
- Otto von Simson, German, active USA and Germany, 1912–1992
- Publisher
- Pantheon, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- 1956
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.4 × 43.2 cm (10 3/8 × 17 in.)
- Open: 26.4 × 66.4 cm (10 3/8 × 26 1/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
