The Bellies Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, Prince of France
Pol de Limbourg, Jean de Limbourg (reproductions of illuminations), 1958
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1959)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Illustrators
- Pol de Limbourg, Jean de Limbourg (reproductions of illuminations)
- Designer
- Joseph Blumenthal
- Decorations
- Fritz Kredel
- Authors
- James J. Rorimer (Introduction), Margaret B. Freeman (descriptions of the plates)
- Trim size
- 6.5 x 9.25 inches; Bulk: 0.25 inches
- Pages
- 56, plus 1 tip
- Price
- $4.75
- Typefaces
- 14/16, 14/18 Monotype Bembo (text), 14, 24 Monotype Bembo (display)
- Compositor
- Spiral Press, Inc.
- Plate makers
- Stoddart-Bell Electrotype Co., Inc. (letterpress), Draeger Frères (color gravure), Beck Engraving Co., Inc. (black-and-white gravure)
- Separations
- Draeger Frères
- Printers
- Spiral Press, Inc. (letterpress), Draeger Frères (color gravure), Beck Engraving Co., Inc. (black-and-white gravure), Electrotypes for letterpress (Introduction), three colors (24 pages), illuminations in gravure, six colors and gold (32 pages), document in gravure, black only (1page tip)
- Papers
- Letterpress, Curtis’s 27.5 x 39.5 inches —86 Rag Laid white, basis 75, color gravure, unspecified European paper, black-only gravure, unspecified
- Paper supplies
- Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp., Draeger Frères
- Binding
- Sorg’s Medium Weight Tensalex C2S, pre-printed in 3-color process offset (300 screen), over .080 binders boards, shelfback and front stamped in genuine gold leaf
- Binder
- Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
- Binding supplies
- Alling Paper Co., The Meriden Gravure Company
- Endpapers
- Curtis’s Rag Laid white, 75-lb., flat back with board in spine
- Publisher
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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