French Wood Carvings From The National Museums: Printed In Collotype From Photographs Specially Taken From The Carvings Direct. (First through Third Series in one volume)
London, England: B. T. Batsford, 1896. First. Hardcover. Brown buckram. First series: [viii] 8 pp plus 18 bw plates. Second Series: [viii] 8 pp., plus 18 plates. Third Series: [viii] 10 pp., plus 18 plates. Good, ex-library, with typical markings, including perforated stamps touching a corner of the plates in the second and third sections. Rebound, binding strong, text pages can be fragile at hinges, plates have cloth hinges. Item #128439
Scarce. Very large plates show great detail. Series 1: Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries. Series 2: Sixteenth century. Series 3: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The author advises students to "on no account forget to note the period as well as the country from which the object comes, as it is only by comparing one example with another that he learns how to discriminate the characteristics of the various styles." Examples of doors, chimney friezes, panels, drawers, coffers, cabinets, cupboards, wardrobes. Includes entire pieces as well as fragments. Beautiful carvings.
Price: $240.00