Author: Wyatt, H. Digby
Title: The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century. A Series of Illustrations of the Choicest Specimens Produced by Every Nation at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851. (Vol. II)
Description: London, Day and Son, 1853. Leather bound. Dark green leather boards with ornate gilt decoration, 6 raised bands on spine with gilt design and lettering in compartments, all edge gilt and stamped design; color illustrated title page, color plates numbered 81-158). Unpaginated but with approx. 80 pp. text interspersed between plates. Chromolithographed title page and stunning, vivid color lithographs of the decorative arts of numerous countries: Furniture, embroidery, ceramics, porcelain, musical instruments, jewelery, book bindings, wall papers, silks, carved ivory, daggers, carpets, enamels, bronzes, jade, chintzes, glass, and more. Each plate includes its own page of descriptive annotation. .Good+ (scuffing and light shelfwear to leather covers, light foxing spots to title page and throughout, damp stained marks to internal hinges of front free end pages and outer edge of plate 157 and 158) .
Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Industrial Arts of the Great Exhibition of 1851 ; ; General Decorative Arts - European
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Title: The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century. A Series of Illustrations of the Choicest Specimens Produced by Every Nation at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851. (Vol. II)
Description: London, Day and Son, 1853. Leather bound. Dark green leather boards with ornate gilt decoration, 6 raised bands on spine with gilt design and lettering in compartments, all edge gilt and stamped design; color illustrated title page, color plates numbered 81-158). Unpaginated but with approx. 80 pp. text interspersed between plates. Chromolithographed title page and stunning, vivid color lithographs of the decorative arts of numerous countries: Furniture, embroidery, ceramics, porcelain, musical instruments, jewelery, book bindings, wall papers, silks, carved ivory, daggers, carpets, enamels, bronzes, jade, chintzes, glass, and more. Each plate includes its own page of descriptive annotation. .Good+ (scuffing and light shelfwear to leather covers, light foxing spots to title page and throughout, damp stained marks to internal hinges of front free end pages and outer edge of plate 157 and 158) .
Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Industrial Arts of the Great Exhibition of 1851 ; ; General Decorative Arts - European
Price: US$ 600.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 191597
- Book number: 191597
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