1918 Decorative Textiles: An Illustrated Book on Coverings for Furniture, Walls and Floors, Including Damask, Brocades and Velvets, Tapestries, Laces, Embroideries, Chintzes, Cretonnes, Drapery and Furniture, Trimmings, Wall Papers, Carpets, and Rugs, Tooled and Illuminated Leathers
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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
Unspecified limited edition. Illustrated with five-hundred and eighty images, with twenty-seven colour plates. Collated complete. A comprehensive study on decorative textiles, with reference to furniture, tapestries, embroideries, drapery, wall papers, carpets, rugs, and much more. Written by George Leland Hunter, an American authority on decorative arts, his work 'Tapestries, Their Origin, History, and Renaissance', was regarded as the finest work in English on the subject.
Condition
In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound with one detached endpaper. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown.
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