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Very Good Dark Blue Faux Leather with gilt sunburst motif with spine titles and decoration
Nice luster
Housed in a Very Good Slip Case
1972 facsimile edition of The Visconti Hours, National Library, Florence, edited by Millard Meiss and Edith W. Kirsch.
Book Details
- Publisher: George Braziller, New York
- Artists: Giovannino de' Grassi and Luchino Belbello da Pavia
The 1972 George Braziller edition of The Visconti Hours contains 128 full-page color plates. Each illustration is accompanied by facing-page scholarly commentary
The plates were printed by Draeger Frères in Paris, France, a legendary printing house renowned for its high-fidelity art reproductions
- Process: They utilized premium offset lithography
- Effect: The illustrations were printed in full color onto a specially formulated paper designed to simulate the texture and appearance of parchment (vellum)
- Details: This technique meticulously captured the intense pigments (such as lapis lazuli blues) and the glowing burnished gold leaf textures characteristic of the original 14th-century illuminated manuscript
