The Gottingen Model Book

The Gottingen Model Book

Edward D. King, Columbia, Missouri, 1972

Description

Here, set within a scholarly discussion of its origin and influence, is a fifteenth-century manual for illuminators. This edition was designed to reinforce visually the author’s thesis that the Gottingen example provided a model for other manuscript and book illuminators.

Special features: Book contains a four-color facsimile section of the original model book. Front cover has three-hit stamping on acanthus leaves\, a repeated theme in the book.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1973)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director/designer
Edward D. King
Editor
Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt
Translator
Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt
Size
10 x 8 inches
Pages
104
Quantity printed
edition of 1,500
Price
$25.00
Typeface
Monotype Dante, 11/13, with display in foundry Dante
Typesetter
William Clowes & Sons, Ltd., London
Printer
Jenkins-Universal Corporation
Printing method
Offset
Paper
Mohawk Superfine High Finish, 100 lb., White
Paper supplies
Mudge Paper Company
Binder
Tapley-Rutter Company
Binding materials
bound in Interlaken AV4 Matte Red on 9 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers
Grandee (Strathmore) Lugo Gray
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
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