The Visconti Hours
Adele Westbrook, New York, New York, 1972
Description
This facsimile edition of an extraordinary fourteenth century illuminated manuscript is the seventh in the Braziller Library of illuminated Manuscripts, and the first Italian one. One unusual aspect of the manuscript is that its two distinct parts had been separated for centuries, and only recently reunited at the National Library of Florence. This complete edition reproduces the 128 illuminated pages in their original size and with facing color pages.
Special features: Paper stock pre-printed throughout with parchment-effect background. Slipcase manufactured by binder.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1973)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Adele Westbrook
- Designers
- Vincent Torre (book), Oscar Ratti (slipcase and binding)
- Picture editor
- Bella Bessard
- Authors
- Millard Meiss, Edith W. Kirsch
- Size
- 7 x 10 inches
- Pages
- 264
- Quantity
- edition of 40,000
- Price
- $40.00
- Typeface
- Linotype Palatino, 10/12, with display in foundry Palatino
- Typesetter
- Haber Typographers, Inc.
- Printer
- Draeger Freres, Paris
- Printing method
- Sheet-fed offset (plus fifth color, gold, in gravure)
- Paper
- dull coated stock, 105 lb.
- Binder
- Mayer & Soutter, Lausanne
- Binding materials
- bound in Skivertex Antika Dark Blue on binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, round back
- Endpapers
- cream stock supplied by the printer
- Publisher
- George Braziller, Inc.
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