Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Book of Hours, Use of Paris by Simon Vostre

Medium

Woodcut and letterpress in black with brush and gouache, and pen and ink on vellum (discolored at edges), in eighteenth-century full red goatskin, sewn on raised bands, with Cambridge-style gold tooling, rolled edges in gold, gold stamped spine decoration, hand-sewn silk headbands, and marbled endsheets

Dimensions

22.6 × 30 cm (8 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Classification

book

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

53311

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