The Sky at Night 3 by Patrick Moore
An apt use of Ben Bold, a squarish sans with high contrast and rounded corners, for The Sky at Night 3 by Patrick Moore, published by the BBC in 1970.
Ben Bold was first shown by British type provider Photoscript in 1968. Typeshop copied it under the alias Blackpool. Its designer is unknown.
From the inner flap of the jacket:
Patrick Moore has now been presenting his Sky at Night programme on BBC television every month for over thirteen years, and as a member of the studio team for the BBC’s coverage of the Apollo flights he is familiar to countless viewers. This is the third collection of The Sky at Night material and covers the period from July 1967 to the end of 1969.
From the author’s preface:
Two previous volumes of The Sky at Night have been published, and this present book takes the story up to the end of 1969. It has been a momentous period. Men have reached the Moon; there have been soft landings by automatic probes on Venus, and spectacular pictures of the craters on Mars. In the field of stellar astronomy, those strange objects the pulsars have made their entry, and we have even seen a brilliant nova or new star. By taking events in chronological order, I hope I have managed to present a record which will be of some historical as well as current interest. This, at least, has been my intention; whether or not I have succeeded must be left to the reader to judge.
