Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by conditions of production]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Information Forms
5. information forms
6. information artifacts
7. information artifacts by physical form
8. books
9. books by internal form
10. illustrated books

Anotations

Scope note:

Limited edition books, traditionally handcrafted from fine materials, richly illustrated with original works of graphic art by well known artists. Often includes artists' visual counterparts to a piece of poetry or prose. The tradition began in France in the mid-nineteenth century and has spread elsewhere.