1850 Texte Explicatif et Planches Supplementaires des Specimens de l'Art Ornemental de Louis Gruner Choisis Parmi les Meilleurs Modeles des Epoques Classiques

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

A scarce work. In French, translated from the original English. Illustrated with eight monochrome plates. Collated, complete. A supplemental work to Ludwig Gruner's 'Specimens of Ornamental Art'. An interesting work on the ornamental details found on Italian architecture from the twelfth to fifteenth century. Written by Ludwig Gruner, a Keeper of the Royal Print Room at Dresden. He was also an engraver an art publisher, directing the production of chromolithography by Storch & Kramer. Illustrated by Emile Braun. August Emile Braun was a German archaeologist, who devoted his career to art history.