DECORATIVE TEXTILES: An Illustrated Book on Coverings for Furniture, Walls and Floors, Including Damasks, Brocades and Velvets, Tapestries, Laces, Embroideries, Chintzes, Cretonnes, Drapery and Furniture Trimmings, Wall Papers, Carpets and Rugs, Tooled and Illuminated Leather
by Hunter, George Leland
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. / Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks Co., 1918. First edition / Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, original blue cloth with gilt titles, cover ornament in gilt and red; xxii, 458 pp., 580 monochrome illustrations, 27 full-page color plates; In publisher's two-piece box. Covers are virtually as-new, light foxing to endpapers and first and last couple pages, tear to upper margin of last page, else fine in worn box.
A comprehensive overview of all types of decorative textiles. Preliminary leaf states "This Limited Edition Has Been Printed from Type and the Type Distributed" but the size of the edition is not indicated.
A comprehensive overview of all types of decorative textiles. Preliminary leaf states "This Limited Edition Has Been Printed from Type and the Type Distributed" but the size of the edition is not indicated.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20213
- Title
- DECORATIVE TEXTILES
- Author
- Hunter, George Leland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / Limited edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Co. / Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1918
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