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Paris: (not identified), circa 1890-1900. Hardcover. Oversized, 3/4 brown leather and blue cloth boards, marble illustrated end papers, no text pages, 145 plates. Plate edition only with 145 plates with captions in French. More
Paris: (not identified), circa 1890-1900. Hardcover. Oversized, 3/4 brown leather and blue cloth boards, marble illustrated end papers, no text pages, 145 plates. Plate edition only with 145 plates with captions in French. More
London: The Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1901. Hardcover. Light brown cloth over boards; gilt lettering. In home-made manila folio with four flaps and closure. lvii, 120 pp. bw plates (many with more than one image to a page), 185 pp. catalogue and index. Oversized and heavy. A lengthy list of..... More
Paris: Honoré Champion, 1910. Hardcover. Green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine; gilt top edge. 100 pages of text, 24 non-text plates (some color). No. 125 of 125 copies. This was bound in hardcover to preserve and was well done. Beautiful plates and nice for age. Scarce title and in..... More
Paris: Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1920. Hardbound. Very large blue library buckram. 18 pp. essay with 12 bw illustrations; followed by 12 double-page heliogravures of the tapestries and 2 small color plates of portions of plate 5 and plate 7 tipped in. Oversize. Text entirely in French. Maximilien I was..... More
London: H. Fisher & Son & P. Jackson, 1826. Hardcover. Decorative boards with red spine. Gilt lettering on spine. x, 152, 12 pages, leaves of plates : illustrations. More
London, England: Smith and Robins, 1842. Softcover. green wraps w/ illustrations & black cloth spine. book xxiv, 250 pgs w/ tissue-guard portrait frontis. Frontispiece foxed and with stain to upper edge. Page 135 has jagged tear to upper edge; page 55 has slice to upper edge. Pages remain fairly bright..... More
Paris: Librairie des Arts Decoratifs, 1928. Portfolio with ties, red paper front and back, linen spine. 59 (of 64) plates present. This copy lacking plates 8, 9, 14, 25 and 34. Priced accordingly. Rare series of plates / illustrations in bw from the 'Librairie des Arts Decoratifs' and an interesting..... More
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927-1930. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering; black and red lettering on title page; Band I: XIX, 66 pp, 62 bw and color plates. Band II: XX, 87 pp; 52 two-paged bw and color plates. Text is in German. This is a 2 volume set..... More
London, England: B. T. Batsford, 1876. Hardcover. Brown cloth library binding; Unpaginated, approx. 80 pp.; 36 plates. Includes a preface by the author, followed by descriptions of the plates, then the plates themselves, which feature sketches of both individual pieces of furniture and full rooms; Scarce--WorldCat currently lists only five..... More
Paris: Maison Marinet / Hautecoeur, circa 1850? Hardcover. Green library buckram. 14 color plates. Bals D'Enfants may or may not be the correct title, but it was used by the library for cataloguing and place on the volume during the binding process. The book contains a series of 14 illustrations..... More
Vienna, Austria: Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co, 1912. Hardcover. blue illustrated boards w/ red printing. grey wraps w/ red printing, 71 pgs w/ bw illustrations. 68 loose bw & color plates. Text in Croatian, German and French. Plates will have darkening to edges with instances of edge-wear, chips tears;..... More
Paris: Librarie de Gide Fils, 1821, Circa. Hardbound. Orange paper printed covered boards with black leather spine with paper applied label. New Endpapers. Title-page, (4) pp. Introductory text, followed by 24 Color plates, one-to-a-sheet, each with 1 sheet of accompanying text, sometime printed on both sides. All edges gilt. Text..... More
Augsburg: ohann Melchior Lotte, 1795. Hardcover. Original paper-covered boards and paper-covered spine. An elaborate and extremely early publication on ornamental ironwork or metalwork. There are 6 sections to the book, each with a few pages of descripotive text keyed into the accompanying plates. Each section has 4 engraved copper plate..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1927. 88/150. Hardcover. Green marble portfolio, tan title block with black lettering on front cover; color illustrated frontispiece, 99 pp, XXXI color plates, 100 bw plates. Printed in edition of 150 copies, this being number 88. Text in French; captions on plates in English and French. Sumptuous Embroidery..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928. Hardcover. Gray-green and half ivory vellum binding with blue and gilt decoration and gilt stamped lettering. xxxiii, 413 pp. Color frontispiece. CIII plates. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Includes bibliographical references. More
Paris: Editions Le Document, 1934. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with white paper label and black lettering. 194 pages. 19 pages of illustrations. Plates, facsimiles, diagrams. 513 of 1050 copies. Text in French. Includes bibliographical references. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1932. Hardcover. Large (21" x 16") portfolio with blue paper-covered boards with a red leather label in the center, cloth ties and red cloth spine with attached cloth label. 4 preliminary leaves, 3-48 pages 43 plates (some color) on 41 leaves. The Rockefeller McCormick collection..... More
Paris: J. Baudry, n.d. (circa 1900-1910?). Hardcover. Burgundy library buckram. 16 pp + 100 plates, with textual descriptions on facing pages. In French. Oversize. Tapestries from the 16th to 19th centuries. School of Jules Romain, Charles Le Brun, Noel Goypel, Francois Boucher; Gobelins galore, Beauvais. Most plates in bw; some..... More
New York: Privately Printed, 1913. Hardcover. Bound in black leather (front cover missing), 5 raised bands on spine, portrait frontispiece, 346 pp, unpaginated plates with guard sheets. Colophon: Two hundred and fifty copies of this book privately printed by Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1913. Contents: Charles Mather Ffoulke, by Glenn Brown.--Introduction..... More
London: John & E. Bumpus, 1889-1892. Hardcover. Two oversized volumes bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and burgundy cloth boards; five raised bands on spines with gilt lettering; marble illustrated end pages. Volume 1 is 21 pages text followed by plates I-C. Volume II has VIII pp followed by plates CI-CC..... More
Wien (Vienna): Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co., 1926. Hardcover. Vols. 1 & 2: red library buckram (both rebound). Vol 3: beige cloth (original binding). Vol. 1 has 320 pp. and 91 bw figures. Vols. 2 & 3 contain plates 1-344 (some on foldout pages) with a few in color..... More
Paris: E. Hessling, 1910. Hardcover. Oversized portfolio, 3/4 green cloth and tan paper boards with black lettering; title page, table of plates, III pp followed by CXIV plates. Text is in French. The Lace Collection at the Museum of Fabrics in Lyon. More
Paris: H. Floury, 1900. Softcover. Tan wraps, black lettering and illustration; bw illustrated title page with black and red lettering; 120 pp, 6 pp illustrations, II plates, I facsimile. Text is in French. "one hundred and five numbered copies, of which only fifty were put on the market." This is..... More
London: Day & Son, 1852. Hardcover. Oversized brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and design; LII, 81 pp, 50 bw and color plates. Added title page illustrated in colors, included in number of plates. Includes a list of the plates and description of the plates. More
London: Architectural Press, 1926. Hardcover. Green library buckram. xi + 188 pages of plates, mostly bw, 14 in color. Oversize. Includes interiors, furniture, fixtures, rugs and textiles, wall paper, glass and ceramics from 1918 to 1926. More