Verlet, Pierre - The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Savonnerie

Fribourg, Switzerland, National Trust By Office De Livre, 1982. Hardcover. blue cloth w/ gilt emblem; mustard & gilt printed spine title plate. approx 530 unpaginated pgs w/ illustrations & fold-out diagram. top edge gilt. glossy blue & illustrated dustjacket. Other than the dampstaining to lower page corners, this is a clean copy."The collection of carpets formed by Baron Ferdinand and Miss Alice de Rothschild covers the whole range of Savonnerie products of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."--Publisher. Good+ (cloth scuffed & spotted; edge-wear. spine ends bumped. lower textblock edge has streaks of soiling; lower corners of pgs & diagram have dark brown, coffee-like dampstaining. dustjacket has edge-wear, rubbing to corners & light .scratches. dustjacket has dark dampstaining to lower corners; corners torn w/ glossy veener peeling.) .

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