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Riggisberg, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 1994. Paperback. Green wraps with black and dark green lettering. 220 pp. Illustrations. Text in German, English, and French. Includes bibliographical references. More
Riggisberg, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 1994. Paperback. Green wraps with black and dark green lettering. 220 pp. Illustrations. Text in German, English, and French. Includes bibliographical references. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Cream canvas, olive & sage & illus. dust jacket, 293 pp., 247 BW illus., 8 color plates. "The first detailed study in fifty years of Byzantine ivory carving in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the era when workd in that medium reached..... More
Leeds: Leeds City Art Galleries, 1987. Softcover. Tan and color illustrated wraps; bw illustrated title page, 111 pp; profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color. "This is the third in a series of majot exhibitions held at Temple Newsam which set out to explore neglected aspects of country house interiors..... More
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, circa 1900. Hardcover. Portfolio, tan paper boards with red and black lettering and illustration; 62 pp, 40 plates. Text is in French. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: France, Musee National Rodin. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering; colorfully illustrated green DJ with white and light pink lettering; 407 pp. richly illustrated. Includes grand town and country homes as well as middle-class houses; illustrated with drawings and paintings of the period, including those by Hogarth, Zoffany and..... More
Vienna, Austria: Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., circa 1903. two page introductory packet, 56 loose bw plates. A lovely and fascinating set of Prague sculptors. More
Darmstadt: 1894. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt and black embossed decoration. Contains issues from Volume 5, January-December 1894. 196 pp + xcvi pp of advertisements. Many bw and some monochrome llustrations. Oversize. llustrated craft magazine for interior decoration, a German magazine which focused on interior design trends, architectural ornament, and..... More
Darmstadt: Verlagsanstalt A. Koch, 1925. Hardcover. purple cloth boards w/ gilt printing. 458 pgs w/ bw & select color illustrations, floorplans, diagrams. llustrated craft magazine for interior decoration, a German magazine which focused on interior design trends, architectural ornament, and decorative arts for the home. More
Roma (Rome), Italy: Carlo Bestetti, [1962]. Hardcover. Yellow, black and white decorated cloth, 219 pp., BW & color illus. Text is in Italian, English, French, and German. Considers the mid-century style of Italian designers when it came to the decorative arts. "The valiant enthusiasts who have compiled this book ....... More
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1944. Hardcover. Gray paper boards with gray cloth spine, brown illustration and lettering on front cover; XI, 101 pp, 63 plates (several in color). Text is in Spanish. Corpus Vasorum of Spain: Ceramica of Azila. Museos Arqueologicos de Madrid, Barcelona y Zaragoza. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Hardcover. Mylar covered dj; navy boards, gilt lettering. 2 volumes frontispieces, illustrations, plates. V. 1. The Middle Ages. -- v. 2. The Renaissance to 1900. Includes bibliographical references. More
Darmstadt: Verlagsanstalt A. Koch, 1923. Hardcover. purple cloth boards w/ gilt printing. 370 pgs w/ bw illustrations. llustrated craft magazine for interior decoration, a German magazine which focused on interior design trends, architectural ornament, and decorative arts for the home. More
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1984. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering, yellow illustrated dust jacket with black lettering, 190 pp., mostly bw with some color illustrations. Text is entirely in German. More
Vienna: Wallishausser, 1821. Hardcover. Brown marbled boards w/ brown cloth spine; four bands w/ black lettering on the spine; VII, 287 pp., untrimmed. Text in German. This is first volume of two. More
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, 1966. Hardcover. Orange boards with gilt stamped lettering. Red dust jacket with black stamped lettering. 47 pages. 70 pages of BW plates. 1 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Originally published in 1906. More
Paris, France: Tardy, 1977. Softcover. glossy white wraps w/ black illustration & printing. 286 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Text in French. Black/white illustrations. More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. wine cloth with black lettering on spine. Pale blue and color-illustrated dust jacket. Red illustrated endpapers. xiv; 346 pp. Hundreds of BW and color illustrations. Pages appear free of dampstaining other than the rippling to closing glossary and index. This copy..... More
Paris: A. Calavas, 1888-1889. Hardcover. Oversized red portfolio with gilt lettering; title page, 96 bw plates and 4 pp table of contents. Text is in French. Includes a list of the plates with brief descriptions. More
New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1999. Hardcover. tan & brown design cloth w/ tan spine & black printing. 496 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy green & silver illustrated dustjacket. white slipcase. Wonderfully illustrated account of the Pre-War World I to the late 1990s craft scene of..... More
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1930. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Brown boards with red title block and black lettering on front cover; brown paper wrap booklet with 20 pp of text and bw illustrations followed by 80 loose leaves of bw plates. Text in German. Comprised mostly of plates that depict Biedermeier furniture..... More
Paris: Armand Guerinet, not dated. Hardcover. Oversized purple and black marble illustrated paper boards; green cloth spine; one text page listing the plates followed by 53 bw plates. Text is in French. This is Volume 4: Peintures decoratives. The Museum of Decorative Arts: Private Collections of decorative paintings. More
London: Bell, 1969. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; gilt spine lettering; golden dust jacket with black illustration and lettering; x, 458 pages 239 plates, illustrations, portrait. Contents: The apothecary -- Costume accessories -- Drinking -- Eating -- Farm -- Fire and lighting -- Kitchen -- Laundry and..... More
London: G. Bell & Sons, 1972. Hardcover. Burgundy leather boards with gilt spine lettering; brown dust jacket with navy lettering; x, 60 pp, 8 unnumbered pages of bw plates. Contents include: Introduction; Foreword by A.E. Werner; The Conservation and Restoration of Objects Made Wholly or in Part of Leather; Products..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1984. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with silver stamped lettering. Glossy black and color-illustrated dust jacket with green and white lettering. 238 pp. 146 illustrations in color and 337 in BW. "The international movement known as art nouveau transformed the decorative arts throughout Europe and the..... More
London, England: Harvey Miller & Medcalf, 1972. Hardcover. Blue stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine, 168 pp., 270 BW illus., 1 color plate as frontispiece; weighs 4.5 lbs. Addresses the subject of ivory carvings chronologically: in the seventh and eighth centuries; in the tenth-century and after monastic reform; and in..... More