Tableaux-Tentures de Dufour & Leroy. by CLOUZOT, HENRI

Paris: Librairie des Arts Decoratifs, 1930. Hardcover. Good (Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged/toned; cloth spine strip is damaged and frayed; bookmark is frayed and stained; interior pages are lightly toned with some foxing/smudging; marginalia ifc.). Pink and white folio boards with mounted white title card with black lettering; white cloth closure; 20 unnumbered pp.; 52 plates (6 color); additional ephemera laid-in. Text in French.

Paris: Calavas. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated with 54 plates (6 in color), mostly single sheets but some are printed with two images on a larger folded sheet. Folio, loose plates as issued in a cloth-backed portfolio with ties (spine ends worn; internally clean). Paris: Calavas/Librairie des Arts Decoratifs, (no date, circa 1900). Very good(+).<br/><br/> A very good copy of this scarce book containing scenic images from wallpapers produced by the venerable French designers Dufour & Leroy in the 19th Century.<br/><br/>

Paris: Librairie des Arts Decoratifs A. Calavas, [1930]. Hardback. Good Only. 13" by 10". Not Stated. An uncommon portfolio work looking at impressive painted French wallpapers by Dufour and Leroy, complete with plates, including six in colour. An uncommon work.In the original portfolio binding.Illustrated with a total of fifty-four plates on forty-one plates, six of which are in colour. Thirteen of the plates are folding, with two plate illustrations printed to one plate, being Plates I and II, VI and VII, X and XI, XV and XVI, XVIII and XIX, XXII and XXIII, XXVI and XXVII, XXXI and XXXII, XXXV and XXXVI, XXXIX and XL, XLIII and XLIV, XLVIII and XLIX, and LII and LIII.Plates II and III, VI and VII are a folding plate, with both illustrations to one plate.Collated, complete.In the original French.A beautiful and definitive study on impressive French painted wallpapers. The scenic wallpapers are vividly depicted in the fifty-four plates.With an introduction by Henri Clouzot, conservateur at the Musee… Read More

A. Calavas, Paris, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [French Decorative Arts] Near fine. Oversized portfolio, with cloth tie. 4to, 33 x 26 cm. 54 plates (6 in color). The prints illustrate wallpaper patterns from France's leading maker during the Empire and Restoration periods. Descriptive letterpress in French and English