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The Grandes Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director
Victoria de Ramel
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

To make available to the general public one of the greatest treasures of medieval art.

Special features:  Three piece cover joined along backbone by adhering rigid front and back panels with semi-flexible back strip. Same binding material used on three piece. Cover and backbone stamped in gold leaf. Clear acetate covering for the jacket supplied by binder.

Credits
Designer: The Inkwell Studio
Photography: Draeger Freres, Paris
Picture editor: Marcel Thomas
Author: Marcel Thomas
Size: 12.25 x 16.5 inches
Pages: 184
Quantity printed: edition of 20,000
Price: $45.00
Typeface: Linotype Palatino, 12/15, with display in foundry Palatino and De Roos Inline
Typesetter: V&M Typographical, Inc.
Printer: Draeger Freres, Paris
Printing method: Text: sheet-fed offset, Illustrations: four color sheet-fed offset with a fifth color, gold, in gravure
Paper: dull coated paper, 108 lb.
Binder: Mayer & Souter SA, Lausanne
Binding materials: bound in Relon Grenadine on 98 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn with vegetable thread, round and backed with headbands
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc. (New York, New York)