Decorated Wooden Ceilings in Spain
New York/ London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. Hardcover. Tan cloth portfolio boards with gilt lettering; tan ribbon tie closures, X pp, 56 plates, each with a descriptive page. Good+ (all plates are present and lightly age toned but otherwise clean; light shelfwear to portfolio). Item #188638
"That old wooden ceilings are more numerous in Spain than in other European countries is due not alone to the face that many more were built... From hundreds of examples gathered by the authors the following have been selected as presenting the greatest variety of structural form and applied decoration..."- from the foreword. Includes a list of the plates as they appear and a list of plates arranged alphabetically according to their structural classifcation, sorted by: Beamed Type, Concealed Beam Type, Open Rafter Type, Vaulted in Form Type, and Renaissance Coffered Type.
OCLC: 1021329
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