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Book Cover, The Mirror in the Roadway: A Study of the Modern Novel
This is a Book cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and photographed by Elliot Erwitt and published by Alfred A. Knopf. It is dated 1956 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.
Its dimensions are
21.6 × 33.1 cm (8 1/2 × 13 1/16 in.) Open: 21.6 × 53.5 cm (8 1/2 × 21 1/16 in.)
It is signed
Printed in black ink, verso, bottom of left flap: Typography, binding and jacket design by / Herbert Bayer[name in bold]
It is inscribed
Printed in black ink, verso, upper right of left flap: $4.50; bottom of right flap: PRINTED IN U.S.A.
Cite this object as
Book Cover, The Mirror in the Roadway: A Study of the Modern Novel; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Photographed by Elliot Erwitt (1928); Published by Alfred A. Knopf; offset lithograph on paper; 21.6 × 33.1 cm (8 1/2 × 13 1/16 in.) Open: 21.6 × 53.5 cm (8 1/2 × 21 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-260
