Author: Not Identified
Title: Williamsburg Wallpapers: Historic Reproductions
Description: Not Identified, [Colonial Williamsburg Foundation / Schumacher], 1990. Hardcover. Oversized brown boards with gilt lettering and design, with five raised bands; unpaginated; richly illustrated with 104 wallpaper reproductions in vivid color; index with prices on rear pastedown. "Just as wallpaper is a fashionable and highly visible option in interior design today, so it was for eighteenth-century Americans who wished to furnish their houses in the latest fashion..Despite the extensive use of wallpaper in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, its poor survival rate has made its study more elusive than many other aspects of interior decoration..therefore, we rely on many sources to re-create early designs." -- first page Each series of reproductions are accompanied by historical explanations of their design and origins. Beautiful collection!. VG (Light edgewear to boards/bumping/scuffing; light edgewear to textblock; inner hinge of front board is beginning to crack at the bottom; interior is very clean.) .

Keywords: American Decorative Arts, Colonial Williamsburg, Wallpaper ; Colonial Williamsburg Collection of Historic Wallpapers ; ; Collections - American Decorative Arts


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