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HIVER DE BEAUVOIR, Alfred. La librairie de Jean duc de Berry au château de Mehun-sur-Yevre 1416. Paris: Auguste Herissey at Evreux for Auguste Aubry, 31 March 1860.
8o (203 x 138 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of two copies. Title in red and black. Publisher's device, head- and tailpieces. Gilt-panelled red morocco, initial B within cartouche in center of sides, top-edges gilt, the others uncut, bound by Roger Devauchelle for Bernard Breslauer.
The total edition size was 350 copies, divided over five kinds of paper and TWO COPIES ON VELLUM. Jean de Berry (1340-1416) was son, brother and uncle to various kings of France, one of the greatest bibliophiles of the Middle Ages and patron to the Limbourg brothers, artists of some of the finest Books of Hours ever produced, of which the "Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry" (now at Chantilly) is the most famous.
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The total edition size was 350 copies, divided over five kinds of paper and TWO COPIES ON VELLUM. Jean de Berry (1340-1416) was son, brother and uncle to various kings of France, one of the greatest bibliophiles of the Middle Ages and patron to the Limbourg brothers, artists of some of the finest Books of Hours ever produced, of which the "Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry" (now at Chantilly) is the most famous.