Art industriel. L'ornement des tissus : recueil historique et pratique

Dupont-Auberville

P. Ducher & Cie, 1877

Bound in fine 1/4 cloth over marbled boards.  Folio, 42 cm.  Bound in fine modern cloth with marbled boards. 100 chromolithographic plates.  The lithographs measure 22 ??????????????????? 33 cm. Minor toning to pages, somewhat brittle, a few chipped at edges.  Library stamps and markings.  Perforated stamp on title page, as well as on the bottom right margins of all the plates (doesn't touch the plates).  Some chipping to title.  See our pictures.  Inspired by Racinet's Ornemement Polychrome, Dupont-Auberville was a storied collector of fabric which served as the primary basis for the patterns presented in this work, his collection was exhibited at the Musee des Arts Decoratifis in 1880. The historical development of fabrics and patterns. 

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