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Floral Art: Decoration and Design.
by RICHTER, H. Davis, with Foreword by Frank Brangwyn
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
South Benfleet, Essex, England: F Lewis (Publishers) Limited, 1932 First edition. Large folio (15.5" x 12"), 14 pages plus 60 tipped in color plates by various artists, with letterpress tissue guards interleaved. Publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt Top edge gilt.
Spine & margins of the covers a bit sunned, brief fraying at spine extremities, corners bumped & rubbed through, internally lightly toned (not affecting plates), otherwise Good or better.
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"One may safely assume that flowers were the earliest element of purely decorative designs - the "daisy-chains" of the childhood of art Floral designs occur in all the arts of all periods though they may sometimes be hidden in apparently purely geometric ornament. " ~Excerpted from the foreword
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1133
- Title
- Floral Art: Decoration and Design.
- Author
- RICHTER, H. Davis, with Foreword by Frank Brangwyn
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- F. Lewis
- Place of Publication
- South Benfleet, Essex, England
- Date Published
- 1932
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Decorative Arts, Flowers, Design, Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Decorative Arts;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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