Historic Wall-Papers, from Their Inception to the Introduction of Machinery
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1924. Limited edition. Twelve color plates, 245 halftone illustrations. Quarto. Original cloth over boards. xvi, 458 pages. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound in two colors of cloth with spine and upper boards titled in dark green, color illustration laid down on upper board, top edge gilt. A couple of minor extremity bumps to boards. Jacket has some light soil and a couple of closed edge tears. Publisher's box has some separations along joints, extremity rubs, and some moderate soil.
A very detailed study of the evolution of wallpaper from the sixteenth century onward. Introduction by Henri Clouzot, Conservateur du Musee Galliera, Paris. Printed from type in a limited edition of unstated number and the type then distributed. Comes in the original publisher's box.
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