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