Insel Verlag, 2007. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth-bound hardcover book with a gilted title and cover image. (4), 5-1246 pages. Approx. four inches by six inches by two inches. Written in German. A collection of German songs, poetry, and folklore. Index: Sr. Exzellenz des Herrn Geheimerat von Gothe; Des Knaben Wunderhorn..... More
Milan: Soc. Editrice I. Krachmalnicoff S.p.A., 1952. Hardcover. Tan boards with red lettering and design; cloth spine with red lettering. Under 200 unpaginated pp. 48 color and BW plates. Missing dust jacket. Text in Italian. Each plate contains many pictures of vases, plates, bags, etc., which are each described. More
New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Hardcover. Brown boards with white lettering. 27 pp. + 48 bw and color plates. Comprised mostly of illustrations. Includes textiles, embroideries, tools, furniture, ceramics, and metals from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Balkan States, Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Russia, Poland..... More
1977. Hardbound. Brown cloth with orange, color-illustrated dustjacket. 310 pp., 57 color and 349 bw plates, along with one map. Wonderful, comprehensive survey of French Folk Art - Genres and Materials; the Objects - Naivete, Archaism, Primitivism, the ethnic reference - Cultural identity and regional differentiation. Templates, drafting, geometric folk..... More
Wien: A. Schroll & Co., 1919. Hardcover. Half-bound cloth boards with white spine and green covers; blue lettering and illustration; top edge is tinted blue; 78 pp; illustrations and XXVI plates (some color). Text is in German. More
Wurzburg: Perschmann, 1908. Paperback. Illustrated wraps with black and blue lettering; 71 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German. More
Bratislava: Tatran, 1954. Hardbound. Beige flax/boards with blue decoration and lettering. No dust jacket. Unpaginated [340] with bw illus. numbered from 266-654 and 40 tipped-in color plates. With place-holder ribbon. Text in German. Volume 2 only of a 2-volume set featuring Slovakian folk art. The first volume centered on architecture..... More
San Diego, California: Mingei International Museum, 1999. Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ gilt printing & emblem. gold pastedowns & endpapers. 100 pgs w/ color illustrations. glossy red illustrated dustjacket. Embroidering textiles for dowry and embellishing the home and its furnishings has long been a woman's art in Central and Eastern..... More
Paris: UCAD Musee de la Publicite / Editions Henri Veyrier, 1983? Softbound. White & color illustrated wraps. 104 pp. over 90 mostly bw illustrations. Text is in French. A wonderful collection of 89 old and not-so-old advertising signs. With opening remarks by Francois Mathey and Jacques Lagrange. Thinking of "branding,"..... More
Paris: D. A. Longuet, n/d. Folio. Grey board folios with brick bloth spines and cloth ties at three edges. Brick lettering on both front covers. Vol. I contains a 12-page booklet and 60 bw loose plates. Vol. II contains a 16-page booklet and 60 loose plates. Decorative wood carvings of..... More
Vienna: Selbstverlag, 1977. Softcover. White ill. wraps. 102 pp. + 24 color and bw plate pp. Text in German. Explores the clothing, costume jewelry, decorative arts, tools, ceramics, and painting of Germany's Egerland region. More
Moscow: Association Folk Artistic Handicraft of Russia, 2007. Softcover. Red decorated wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 50 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color reproductions, some glossy. Accompanied the exhibition that opened on December 8, 2007 at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.; Features wood painting, woodcarving, earthenware, lace, ceramics, toys, embroidery, and more;..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1953. 1st edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth with maroon lettering and decoration. 25 pp. text + 49 bw and color plates. Comprised mostly of illustrations. Includes textiles, embroideries, tools, furniture, ceramics, and metals from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Balkan States..... More
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth with maroon lettering and design. Maroon spine with gilt lettering. White dj with color illus. and black lettering. 25 pp. + 48 bw and color plates. Comprised mostly of illustrations. Includes textiles, embroideries, tools, furniture, ceramics, and metals from Finland..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1911. Hardcover. Burgandy library buckram. 180 pp. 50 color plates (3 not numbered) plus bw illustrations. More
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited (for the Committee of Council on Education), 1883. Hardcover. Library binding; Black cloth; 150 pp.; 129 bw figures. A South Kensington Museum Art Handbook. Includes pieces from the Stone and Bronze Ages, as well as the Iron Age, including iron, bronze, gold, silver, wood, bone..... More
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[Strasburg]: [Jost Martin], 1619. Hardcover. Vellum over boards; colorful hand-colored woodut title page; 36 plates. Text in German. This is a well-used, but intact, copy. This book is very similar to WorldCat OCLC# 1158538265. More
Zagreb, Croatia: Graficki zavod Hrvatske, 1973. Hardcover. White & illus. paper boards, spiral-bound book block, 48 pp., 211 illus., mostly in color. Text is in Croatian. A terrific look at folk art embroidery of the Croatian people. With a foreword by Jelka Radaus Ribaric, an article on stitching techniques by..... More
Unterseen, Switzerland: Verein Freunde des Scherenschnittes, 1986. Softcover. White illus. wraps; 73 pp.; 48 duotone plates. Text in German; Includes an introduction by Niklaus Wyss; Contains forty-eight examples of scherenschnitte with short biographies of each artist. More
Hanover, New Hampshire: Brandeis University Press / University Press Of New England, 2007. Hardcover. black cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xviii, 170 pgs w/ bw, color illustrations. glossy black & illustrated dustjacket w/ white, red printing. "Based on more than 20 years of original research in Europe, Israel..... More
