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Derek Birdsall (1934–2024)

Author of Notes on Book Design

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About the Author

Derek Birdsall was consultant art director of the first 'Independent Magazine', and has been a consultant designer to Pirelli, Mobil Corporation, HRH The Prince of Wales School of Architecture and The Church of England
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Works by Derek Birdsall

Notes on Book Design (2004) 87 copies, 1 review
Old Master Drawings from the Albertina 1984 (1984) 46 copies
Paul Rand: Modernist Designer (2003) 25 copies
The technology of man : a visual history (1980) — Joint Author. — 24 copies
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Of Human Bondage (1915) — Cover designer, some editions — 9,389 copies, 164 reviews
The Razor's Edge (1944) — Cover designer, some editions — 6,940 copies, 129 reviews
The Words (1963) — Cover designer, some editions — 2,566 copies, 20 reviews
Cakes and Ale (1934) — Cover designer, some editions — 2,119 copies, 44 reviews
The Great Crash 1929 (1954) — Cover designer, some editions — 1,982 copies, 32 reviews
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) — Cover designer, some editions — 1,706 copies, 18 reviews
Ashenden; or, The British Agent (1928) — Cover designer, some editions — 1,151 copies, 39 reviews
James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study (1930) — Cover designer, some editions — 1,143 copies, 6 reviews
The Magician (1908) — Cover designer, some editions — 1,038 copies, 23 reviews
Up at the Villa (1941) — Cover designer, some editions — 938 copies, 33 reviews
Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 (1963) — Cover designer, some editions — 918 copies, 6 reviews
Christmas Holiday (1939) — Cover designer, some editions — 585 copies, 9 reviews
The Years with Ross (1957) — Cover designer, some editions — 572 copies, 4 reviews
Collected Short Stories: Volume 3 (1963) — Cover designer, some editions — 532 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Short Stories: Volume 4 (1963) — Cover designer, some editions — 529 copies, 1 review
Liza of Lambeth (1897) — Cover designer, some editions — 521 copies, 15 reviews
Mrs Craddock (1902) — Cover designer, some editions — 440 copies, 9 reviews
Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England (2000) — Designer — 361 copies
Check Your Own I.Q. (1966) — Cover designer, some editions — 347 copies, 2 reviews
The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941 (1949) — Cover designer, some editions — 135 copies, 5 reviews
Fischer v. Spassky, Reykjavik, 1972 (1972) — Editor and designer — 77 copies
The Literary Critics: A Study of English Descriptive Criticism (1962) — Cover designer — 75 copies, 1 review
Childhood and Adolescence (Pelican) (1970) — Cover designer — 57 copies
Lucian Freud: Recent Work (1993) — Designer, some editions — 55 copies
Chosen Words (1979) — Cover designer, some editions — 50 copies, 1 review
Mass, Length and Time (1959) — Cover designer — 39 copies
Economic Systems and Society: Capitalism, Communism and the Third World (1974) — Cover designer, some editions — 38 copies
Frank Auerbach (2009) — Designer — 32 copies
The Hour of Maximum Danger (1962) — Cover designer, some editions — 23 copies, 1 review
United Nations : piety, myth and truth (1964) — Cover designer, some editions — 22 copies, 1 review
The Flaw in the Crystal (1954) — Cover designer, some editions — 19 copies, 1 review
H.P.: Harri Peccinotti (2009) — Text — 11 copies

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Notes on Book Design by Derek Birdsall
It's what the title says. Learn by example from a true master. For those times that you just want to see good book design this book is it.
Dec 28, 2020
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