Icebergs And Jungles de Shirley Carpenter; Marie Neurath - 1954

Rathbone Books / Adprint House, 1954. Hard. Very Good. States ""First published in Great Britain in 1954."" Glossy pictorial boards. Scuffed corners and small chip at heel of spine. Gift note on title page dated 1954, else unmarked. Text pages Fine. "" Illustrated with maps, pictures and Isotypes.

New York: Hanover House,, 1954. First edition, first printing, of this uncommon children's book co-authored by data-visualisation pioneer Marie Neurath (1898-1986). While most of Neurath's children's books were produced directly for her Isotype imprint and feature her signature style throughout, she also occasionally collaborated with other authors and publishers. This volume, on Earth's climate and seasons, is a fascinating example of how the Isotype visual language could be incorporated into page layouts featuring traditional illustrations and complex text for older children. Neurath, together with her husband Otto and their colleague Gerd Arntz, was one of the founders of Isotype, a simplified visual method of displaying complex information to the public. First developed in the 1920s, and originally known as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, the goal of Isotype was "to cross national and social divides in a time before widespread global communication. To do that, Isotype went back to… Leer más