The Grandes Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
Victoria de Ramel, New York, New York, 1971
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.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Victoria de Ramel
- 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.
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