Title-page: FRIEDRICH HEER | IN COLLABORATION WITH XAVER SCHNIEPER | GREAT | DOCUMENTS | OF THE WORLD | Milestones of Human Thought | EDITED BY PIERRE SCHWOB | DESIGNED BY ROBERT TOBLER | McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY | NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO ST. LOUIS KUALA LUMPUR | MONTREAL SÃO PAULO TORONTO ||
Author: Friedrich Heer (Austrian, 1916-1983)
Collaborator: Xaver Schnieper (German, 1910-1992)
Editor: Pierre Schwob
Designer: Robert Tobler
Title: Great Documents of the World: Milestones of Human Thought
Place of publication / Publisher / Date: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977
Pagination: [1–5], 6–190, followed by 1 blank flyleaf
Size: 265 × 227 mm
Binding: Black cloth boards with gilt embossed vignette (a dove with olive branch above weapons, signed “P. Picasso 1952”); in original red pictorial dust jacket (price clipped)
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated throughout, including facsimiles of historical manuscripts and printed documents
Contents: Includes introductory texts by Friedrich Heer and Xaver Schnieper; 35 thematic chapters from the Code of Hammurabi to the Pioneer 10 plaque; index, sources, picture credits, further reading
Printing Details:
• Copyright © 1977 by McGraw-Hill Book Co. (UK) Ltd., Maidenhead, England
• Printed by Polygraphische Gesellschaft, Laupen
• Bound by Schumacher AG, Schmitten
• Composition by Filmsatz Stauffer + Cie, Basel
• Photolithography by Kreienbühl AG, Lucerne
Library of Congress Data: Includes index. Subjects: 1. Civilization—History—Sources
ISBN: 0-07-027780-X
Note: Co-publication issued simultaneously in the U.S. and Europe; a visual and textual anthology of key civilizational documents curated for general audiences.
