Corpus des Tapis Marocains (Vols. I, II, III, IV)
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1923. Originals, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1934. Folio. Folios of faun half-cloth with tan paper/boards and black lettering. All volumes have cloth ties at 3 sides. All volumes complete: Volume I: Text booklet with xiv + 31 pp.; 64 loose bw plates. Volume II: Text booklet with ii + 74 pp. and 64 bw figures; 64 loose bw plates. Volume III: Text booklet with ii + 26 pp. and 73 bw figures; 64 loose bw plates of which 14 are folded in two and 1 is a tri-fold. Volume VI: Text booklet with viii + 74 pp. and 71 bw figures; 64 loose bw plates of which 18 are double-folded and 3 are tri-folds. All are art museum ex-lib. with appropriate marks/plates/spine stickers. In addition, Vol. IV folio is a re-binding. Vols. I-III have a personal bookplate of George Hewitt Myers, philanthropist and founder of the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. Covers of first three volumes are rough at spines and have bumped corners, but all ties secure the bindings. Contents good, clean, and tight but for a few pages with foxing in Vol. IV; plates mostly VG-NF. Item #152645
Text in French. The first four volumes of a set of 6 proposed about the carpets of Morocco. Volume I covers the carpets of Rabat; Volume II, the carpets of the Middle Atlas region; Volume III covers the High Atlas and the Haouz area of Marrakech; and Volume IV a large variety of areas of Morocco. With plates showing clear patterns of the carpets. A scarce set of all 4 volumes with the contents in such good condition. The author, Prosper Ricard, was the director of the Department of Indigenous Art in Morocco.
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