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Harper & Brothers, 1935. HBDJ, GOOD/VG+, FACSIMILE DUSTJACKET, 1935, STATED Second edition, Dates Match on title & copyright pg which has foxing, , Green & Blue Decorated Cloth with Gold Gilt spine cover FOX & TINY CHIPS Along Edges, Cover minor rub few small stains, wear Scuff , Interior Nice tight Clean minor wear , very light Fox, , 278 pgs, Back of green cloth cvr has FOX & stains to edges,nominal author of the influential 1913 book "The House in Good Taste,"and a prominent figure in New York, Paris, and London society. During her married life, the press usually referred to her as Lady Mendl. Illustrated with photos following pg 142, Light Green endpapers Light fox. Hardcover. Good/Very Good.
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France (Faïence) Collection de Faïences (title on spine). (France, later 19th century). Oblong 4to, contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards with monogram A. G. at foot of spine. Manuscript album of French Faïence; a charming album of watercolor and pen and ink drawings on laid paper watermarked Dambricourt Frères of Hallines, a 19th century French papermaker. Faïence is tin-glazed pottery with painted decoration on an earthenware body. With 147 unnumbered leaves, including three very pretty calligraphic divisional titles within pictorial or decorative borders and forty blank pages. Meticulously painted depictions of the ware in three parts. The first, Faïence Patriotique, a specialty in the years of the French Revolution, contains 58 drawings of plates decorated with motifs of the Revolution, mostly two per page. the second, Porcelaines et Faïences, Genres Divers, shows 21 examples on 19 pages of a variety of shapes of ceramiques from Rouen, Delft and elsewhere. The third, Marques de Porcelaines et Faïences , is a manuscript guide to mostly French manufacturers of the 17th to 19th centuries with over 400 drawings of their monograms and marks, including Sèvres, Rouen, Lille, Lorraine, Île de France, Alsace, Provence, Orléans and Nivernais. . Morocco and Marbled Boards. Fine. Oblong 4to.
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After All , autobiography of Lady Mendl OR ELSIE DE WOLFE Cosmopoitan?s Society?s most famous Personage, exquisite FACSIMILE dust jacket portrait featuring Lady Mendl shot for Conde Nast Magazine !
by Elsie de Wolfe, was an American interior decorator, Former OWNER STAMP back blank endpaper, Inner DJ Flap .50 ,nominal author of the influential 1913 book "The House in Good Taste,
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GLORIA VANDERBILT DESIGNS FOR YOUR HOME SIGNED by Vanderbilt , Interior Design & Her Artwork, with complete directions & Diagrams for over 70 Original Needlework,
by by Phyllis Hingston Roderick, GLORIA VANDERBILT, SIGNED IN BLACK FELT PEN on Grey Endpapers. Inner DJ Flap .95, Illustrated B/W & Color, Photographs by Suzan Wood
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Simon & Schuster, NY McCall Pattern Co. , 1977. HBDJ, 1977, 1st edition with #1 in Number Line, Oversized Burgundy HARDCOVER with Silver gilt Titles. Book Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG with rub, wear folds of DJ. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR IN BLACK FELT PEN, 224 pgs , Interior Design & Her Artwork, with complete directions & Diagrams for over 70 Original Needlework, craft, Afghans, Shell Sculpture, Decoupage, Baskets & Sewing Projects , Christmas , inspired by her work. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs by Suzan Wood.
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Gems for the Drawing Room - Fruit and Flowers - Books 1 and 2
by JERRARD, Paul & BAYLEY, J.W.N.
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London: Paul Jerrard, 1852. First Edition. Mid-nineteenth century opulence: two elaborate Victorian plate books with plates of fruit and flowers complimenting verse, fully printed in gilt. Two folios in original cloth with large colour card onlay on front board and gilt floral motif on rear, 24 full-page chromolithographic plates each facing a matching gilt printed poem; cloth mildly browned in book 1, binding rubbed and mild preliminary foxing in book 2, a very good set with beautiful clean plates.
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Farbige Decorationen vom XV-XIX Jarhhundert; Erst Und Zweiter Band (Two Volumes)
by Ewald, Ernst
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Berlin: Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth, 1889. SCARCE with both volumes present and complete. A two volume set, Vol. I published 1889, Volume II, 1896. In original publisher's quarter cloth spine over paper covered boards, complete with ribbon ties. The portfolios Very Good, Vol. I boards soiling and showing some wear Vol. II small tears with small holes to cloth at spine, light wear to edges of boards, some plates with dampstain bottom margins not affecting plate images,. Complete with 12 pages text Vol. I and 15 pages of text Vol. II, with 160 chromolithograph plates total, 80 per volume. Internally quite lovely, the plates with brown tissue guards, a few tissue guards missing or creased. A stunning set of plates. . First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.
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Fancy Work for Pleasure and Profit: Embodying and Containing Instructions for Transferring Designs, Embroidery Stitches, Shading, Flat Embroidery, Church and Bullion Embroidery, Raised Embroidery, All Sorts and Designs of Dainty Trivles, Drawn Work, Knitting and Crocheting, with Suggestions
by Addie E. Heron
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Thompson & Thomas, Chicago, IL.1905. Condition: Very Good+ No dust jacket. 496 pp. Text slight yellowing typical of age. Text block has brown tinted top edge and marbled fore edge. Illustrated throughout with over 350 woodcut illustrations and numerous color plates, including frontispiece. Second printing of this scarce and comprehensive work on embroidery, crochet, knitting, needlework, beading, and much more for women and homemaking. Published during the Victorian era, this book served as a guide in providing new, beautiful and inexpensive items for the home. Book was first published in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and was dedicated to Mrs. Potter Palmer, its President Board of Lady Managers. Remarkable condition for its age.
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L'EREDITA CERAMISTICA DELL' ANTICO MONDO ROMANO Lineamenti Di Una Storia Civile Della Ceramica Romana
by Ballardini, Gaetano
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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Boston: Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato. Very Good+. 1964. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth, spine & front cover has brown title. Text block tight, clean & intact. Profusely illustrated with color & B/W photographs and drawings. Slight toning to page edges only. Ceramics; Color & B/W photograph & Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 303 pages .
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Gems for the Drawing Room - Fruit and Flowers - Books 1 and 2
by JERRARD, Paul & BAYLEY, J.W.N.
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London: Paul Jerrard, 1852. First Edition. Mid-nineteenth century opulence: two elaborate Victorian plate books with plates of fruit and flowers complimenting verse, fully printed in gilt. Two folios in original cloth with large colour card onlay on front board and gilt floral motif on rear, 24 full-page chromolithographic plates each facing a matching gilt printed poem; cloth mildly browned in book 1, binding rubbed and mild preliminary foxing in book 2, a very good set with beautiful clean plates.
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Farbige Decorationen vom XV-XIX Jarhhundert; Erst Und Zweiter Band (Two Volumes)
by Ewald, Ernst
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Berlin: Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth, 1889. SCARCE with both volumes present and complete. A two volume set, Vol. I published 1889, Volume II, 1896. In original publisher's quarter cloth spine over paper covered boards, complete with ribbon ties. The portfolios Very Good, Vol. I boards soiling and showing some wear Vol. II small tears with small holes to cloth at spine, light wear to edges of boards, some plates with dampstain bottom margins not affecting plate images,. Complete with 12 pages text Vol. I and 15 pages of text Vol. II, with 160 chromolithograph plates total, 80 per volume. Internally quite lovely, the plates with brown tissue guards, a few tissue guards missing or creased. A stunning set of plates. . First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.
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A Collection of Scale-Drawings, Details, and Sketches of What is Commonly Known As Colonial Furniture
by Nye, Alvan Crocker
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NY: William Helburn. Good; Library stamp on lower right corner of each leaf, leaves tattered at edges, library pocket and stamps, de-accession correspondence enclosed.. 1895. Hardcover. Measured drawings by the architect author of colonial American furniture, including high-boys, clocks, tables, looking glasses, beds, and various chair styles. A collection of 55 plates of measured drawings and three other printed leaves measuring 17x12 inches housed in a folding red cloth-covered portfolio titled in gilt and with black cloth ties. ; Ex-Library; Folio 13" - 23" tall .
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Luxurious trade catalog of a Paris based bronze-caster: Photographic Album
by Vian, Henri.
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Tuebingen, Germany
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Album with 52 photographs – each ca 220 x 280 mm – on black cardboard mounts showing clocks, mantelpieces, wall appliques, lanterns, chandeliers, bronzes and candelstands cast by the atelier of Henri Vian in Paris. Each photograph with numbers and dimensions of objects in the negativ. A number of plates with pencilled annotations on back of mounts, with numbering and sometimes dimensions of objects. Cont. calf, with an all over decoration of floral elements. Spine on five raised bands. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Foot of spine stamped H. Vian / Paris. Folio (460 x 370 mm). Slightly rubbed, extremeties worn. Henri Vian (1860-1905), a bronze-caster active in the second half of the 19th century, was specialized in the production of bronzes, light fittings, chandeliers, chimney mantelpieces, ormolu and patinated-mounted vases always of very fine quality. The business, located at 5 rue de Thorigny in Paris (the Salé Mansion, now the Picasso Museum), was continued by Madame Vian after her…
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Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité, bijoux; miniatures; tabatières; bonbonnières; matières précieuses; orfévreriers; faënces italiennes et de Bernard Palissy; sculpture; anciennes porcelaines de sévres; bronzes de Louis XVI; objets variés. Joli tapisserie, tableaux modernes et anciens composant la collection de M. le vicomte de S.P. et dont la vente aura lieu... les lundi 22 et mardi 23 janvier 1872.
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1872. Paris, 1872. 32pp. 165 items described. Nineteenth century green half morocco, marbled boards. The name of the collector added in ink in a contemporary hand.
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MODERN FRENCH DECORATION
by Kahle, Katharine Morrison
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New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 219 pages, including 27 pages of black and white photographs. An important and well-illustrated examination of of French design in furniture, textiles, lighting, ironwork, and accessories as decoration was moving from Art Deco to Modernism. The book is in excellent condition: clean, bright, and tight; with just a hint of toning of pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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Applied Art; A collection of designs showing the tendencies of American industrial art; Volume One
by MARTINI, Herbert E. (editor)
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New York: F.K. Ferenz, 1919. Good. Folio. 42 (of 50) plates loose as issued plus front matter. Lacks original half-cloth case. Lacks the following plates: 2, 15, 20, 23, 29, 35, 38, 42. Each plate has a library embossment from Fieldston School of the Ethical Culture. Wear and creasing to some edges. Front matter has ragged edges. This is a collection of plates (most in color) showing the evolution of industrial and advertising art and printing in America.
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Five Centuries of Italian Majolica
by Liverani, Giuseppe
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NY: McGraw Hill, 1960. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: McGraw Hill, 1960. First American Edition. Folio. 9 1/2" x 12." 260pp., 83 tipped-in color plates and 52 b/w illustrations.A Very Good or better copy - clean, straight, tight, no markings, in a Good, heavily frayed dj with several small chips missing.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Good. Folio. Illus.
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Five by Eight: New Ceramic Art From Japan
by Fischer, Felice [Introduction]
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Philadelphia: The Clay Studio, 2011. Small Quarto (9 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 250 x 210 mm), 71, [1] pages in printed dust jacket over black paper wrappers (soft cover). Exhibition of Japanese ceramics at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, from September 23 to October 30, 2011. Eight Japanese artists each contributed five examples of their work. Nicely illustrated, with artists' statements and lists of their exhibitions. In English and Japanese. With an introduction by Felice Fischer, curator of East Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, foreword by Jeff Guido, artistic director of the Clay Studio, and a preface by Makiko Maki, Five by Eight committee representative. This catalogue is scarce to the market. CONDITION: Light edge wear but internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Near Fine.
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Barris Kustom Techniques of the 50's: Top Chops Sectioning Dechroming and Fadeaways
by Barris, George
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Barris Kustom Techniques of the 50's Vol. 1: Top Chops, Sectioning, Dechroming and Fadeaways. Barris, George ISBN-10: 0965200507. . Thaxton Press. Trade Paperback. EXLIB. 128 pages. 10 ½ X 8 1/4.This is volume I of a four volume set.
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Interiors of Virginia Houses of Colonial Times [Signed]
by Sales, Edith Tunis
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Richmond, VA: William Byrd, 1927. SIGNED First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published Richmond, VA: William Byrd, 1927. Signed and dated (September second, 1927) by author on half title. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10." Blue cloth with white lettering and design to cover, marble pattern end papers, color frontis with printed tissue guard, two-color title page. Illustrated with 371 original plates. Spine lettering mostly rubbed off, slight rubbing to the cover lettering, few spots/marks on rear cover, otherwise very good. Binding tight, hinges strong. Internally very good, pages clean, crisp. Very good minus overall.. Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to.
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The Whispered Directory of Craftsmanship Vol. II: A Contemporary Guide to the Italian Handmaking Ability
by VV. AA
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Mondadori Electa, 2012. 6.82 x 0.7 x 9.73 inches. Like New. Mondadori Electa, Italy, in English, 6.82 x 0.7 x 9.73 inches, 200 pages An authentic guide to Italian craft skills compiled by Fendi, a name that has always been synonymous with in-depth research and good works made by hand. Condition: Like New Ships from Hawaii.
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Arte Popolare Italiana
by Toschi, Paolo
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Roma: Carlo Bestetti Edizioni D'arte, 1960. This is a very good hardcover copy in gray cloth covers printed in red and gold with tassel device on the front cover and title in faded gilt to the spine. Edges of the covers a bit toned. Small date on lower edge of front endpaper. Very clean inside. Text in Italian. The 2 page ENGLISH summary laid-in. This is a thorough survey of Italian craft and folk arts including sections on farm and agricultural implements, furniture, textiles and costumes, jewelry and personal ornament, ceramics and glassware, metalwork, cooking ware, wrought iron work, signage, theatrical and festival masks, religious arts, also a section on popular prints. Extensive bibliography. 553 illustrations including many color plates. Plus many more illustrations in the section on popular prints. List of craft makers and producers. 12" high X 10" wide, 451 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and…
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Design Is Where You Find It
by Chatt, Orville K
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Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1972. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1972, first printing. Oblong 4to., 7 1/4" x 10 1/4." 124 pp., illustrated with over 170 photographs. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 4to.
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American Decorative Arts: 360 Years of Creative Design
by Bishop, Robert; Coblentz, Patricia
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NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams, 1982, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 13 1/2", 405pp., 443 illustrations, 160 in full color. Gift inscription on fly leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.
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