Christopher Plantin's Books of Hours: Illustration and Production

by Karen Lee Bowen and Bowen Karen Lee

An in-depth examination of Plantin's large-scale production of books of hours, comprising a survey of their illustration as well as accounts of the general process by which they were printed. A pioneer study of great interest both from the art-historical and from the bibliographical point of view. Contains inter alia many additions and corrections's to Voet's The Plantin Press.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9060044274
• ISBN13: 9789060044278
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 492 Pages