Vases Nouveaux Composes Par M. Jacque Peintre et Dessinateur En La Manufacture Royale Des Gobelins. by Jacques, M - 1770

Paris: Les Editions Nomis, 1949. This is a very good two volume set of the original edition with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out, some light browning to the edges of the soft text pages, occasional offsetting from the color plates visible on facing text pages. Light wear to edges of spine of the plate volume. All text in French. Color plates tipped on to front boards. Text volume: vii, 227 pages + 13 color plates. Various indices: lists of faience artists, place names. Bibliography. Plate volume: 140 black & white photographic plates, with images printed in photogravure. 1100 pieces of majolica illustrated. This is a limited edition of 500 sets. This set is number 14. A beautiful set of the first edition. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Private Printing, 1900 This Collection can be visited in the Permanent Lace Exhibition every day at G. Camerino Jesurum and Burano Venitian Lace 32, Avenue de L' Opera, Paris. String bound. Picture of store rear cover, some chipping to edges. Excellent detail plates. Extremely RARE OCLC finds 1 copy at The Smithsonian. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Good.

Country Life Ltd./ Charles Scribner’s Sons, London and New York, 1924; First Edition; folio (16 1/8 x 11 1/2"); green cloth; gilt titles and rules; top page edges gilt; marbled end papers; photo illustrated. Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards’ monumental work on English furniture, the enduring authority on the subject. Profusely illustrated with photographs in black and white plus 52 full-page color plates. All volumes Fine. Extraordinarily clean, crisp, bright, glossy, corners sharp, bindings tight, sound, and square, titles brilliant. Volume II and III have a single minuscule (1/8") cloth fray at the outermost tip of the lower right corner of the front board. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Small engraved bookplate at front of each volume. A sparkling set in first edition, complete with original dust jackets which bear some edge chipping and aged tape ghosts. Learned twenty-four page introduction by Henry Avray Tipping, notable designer and longtime… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Second Series, Volumes I and II, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1816 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year after Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Includes a handcoloured plate of Napoleon's carriage from Waterloo, and an engraved plan of the newly built Waterloo Bridge.Complete with all 55 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 12 engravings of needlework patterns, and 4 miscellaneous engravings.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting designs by London milliners and dressmakers such as Mrs Charlotte Bean of Albemarle Street, Mrs Griffin of Rider Street, St. James,… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Second Series, Volumes III and IV, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1817 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the years after Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. With 54 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 12 engravings of needlework patterns and an early example of lithography. Two missing fashion plates and text pages 364/365 from the December issue provided in facsimile.Each issue typically with one handcoloured architecture or landscape plate, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, etc.) and one needlework pattern. This year contains nine plates by popular caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson illustrating Sentimental Travels to the South of France, later published by Ackermann.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting… Read More

Paris: Les Editions Nomis, 1949. This is a very good two volume set of the original edition with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out, some light browning to the edges of the soft text pages, occasional offsetting from the color plates visible on facing text pages. Light wear to edges of spine of the plate volume. All text in French. Color plates tipped on to front boards. Text volume: vii, 227 pages + 13 color plates. Various indices: lists of faience artists, place names. Bibliography. Plate volume: 140 black & white photographic plates, with images printed in photogravure. 1100 pieces of majolica illustrated. This is a limited edition of 500 sets. This set is number 14. A beautiful set of the first edition. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Private Printing, 1900 This Collection can be visited in the Permanent Lace Exhibition every day at G. Camerino Jesurum and Burano Venitian Lace 32, Avenue de L' Opera, Paris. String bound. Picture of store rear cover, some chipping to edges. Excellent detail plates. Extremely RARE OCLC finds 1 copy at The Smithsonian. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Good.

NY: Herman Miller Lot of 21 late 1960's, early 1970's Herman Miller publications all in very fine, as new condition. In original 10" x 13" Zeeland, Michigan, Herman Miller envelope. Includes: Action Office Acoustic Handbook 8 1/2" x 11" wrappers, 60pp., b/w illustrated booklet; The Morrison / Hannah Collection. Knoll International. 8 1/4" x 11 5/8" wrappers, 18pp. full color with fold-out; Eames Celebration - Reprinted from Architectural Design, September, 1966. 9 3/8" x 12" wrappers, 44pp., illustrated in b/w and color; Haller Program 24" x 30" full color, 2 sided, 6 panel foldout poster; Haller Program 8 1/2" x 11" wrappers, 12pp. self cover, full color booklet; Herman Miller Environmental Enrichment. 1972. 24" x 37" full color 8 panel foldout poster of Alexander Girard's designs; Herman Miller Library Group Catalog Brochure. 1968. Designed by Tomoko Miho. 8 1/2" x 11" wrappers, 24pp., full color catalog… Read More

Intérieurs II & Intérieurs IIITwo volumes from a set by Léon Moussinac, which provides an important documentation of furniture and interiors by notable French Art Deco designers, each volume with an introduction by Moussinac followed by a large number of plates (52 in II, and 53 in III), many of which are done in pochoir, depicting a variety of interiors and associated types of furniture, including designs for studies, bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, nurseries, dining rooms, salons, men's and lady's rooms, libraries, smoking rooms, and others. Large 4to. Original publisher's printed portfolio-style boards, tie-bound. Paris (Éditions Albert Lévy/Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts) 1924-1926. (Collection Documentaire d'Art Moderne.) 1924 1925.The second volume displays the work of Dominique, Dufrène, René Gabriel, André Groult, Joubert et Petit, Rob. Mallet-Stevens, and F. Nathan. The third volume features Djo Bourgeois, Mme. Chauchet-Guilleré, Andre Fréchet, M. Guillemard, René Herbst, E.… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Second Series, Volumes I and II, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1816 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year after Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Includes a handcoloured plate of Napoleon's carriage from Waterloo, and an engraved plan of the newly built Waterloo Bridge.Complete with all 55 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 12 engravings of needlework patterns, and 4 miscellaneous engravings.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting designs by London milliners and dressmakers such as Mrs Charlotte Bean of Albemarle Street, Mrs Griffin of Rider Street, St. James,… Read More