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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