New York: Vendome Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hard cover. 0865650004 . B&W and Color; 9 1/2 x 11 1/2; 201 pages; Hard cover has purple boards with black spine with gold lettering. Slight rubbing to boards. Red endpapers. DJ has light rubbings, scuffing. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 300+ color and b/w photographs. "In France, during the wonderful turn-of-the-century era known as 'The Belle Epoque,' the feeling ran high that the age's Art Nouveau manner was nowhere better expressed than in the poetic and evocative glass of Emile Galle...Like the painters and the poets, the glassmakers sought to enhance life by liberating the past and by making it a continuously self-revitalizing process of experiment and research...." Glossary; bibliography; index. Oversized/4#. .

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Bookseller: Pegasusbooks.biz (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 13834
Title: The Art Of French Glass, 1860-1914
Author: Bloch-Dermant, Janine
Format/Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0865650004
ISBN 13: 9780865650008
Publisher: Vendome Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1980
Keywords: 0865650004, Art Nouveau;, France;, French History;, Decorative Arts;, Glass Art;, Glassware;, Decoration;, Ornament;, Artisans;

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