Author: BOWEN (Karen Lee)
Title: Christopher Plantin's Books of Hours: Illustration and Production.
Description: Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1997. xxxi, 301pp., 156 plates, orig. cloth. 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.

Keywords: EARLY PRINTING BIBLIOGRAPHY Plantin, Christophe,ca. 1520-1589 Catholic Church Liturgy Texts Illustrations Wood-engraving, Flemish Belgium Antwerp Wood-engraving 16th century Books of hours Printing History