HISTOIRE GENERALE DES ARTS APPLIQUEES A' L'INDUSTRIE: LE MOBILIER AU XVIIE ET AU XVIII SIECLE et pendant les premieres annees du I Empire
Softbound
1902 · Paris
by Molinier, Emile
Paris: Librairie centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1902. Softbound. Fair. Original paper wraps with covers only; no spine; sheets clean but coming loose from binding. Binding copy.. Paper covered oversize wraps. xi, [1], 273 pp, with numerous text illustrations and 20 pages of photogravure illustrations on thick-stock. The second part of a two-part publication. This part, complete in and of itself, covers the 17th and 18th centuries. Text in French. Great detail provided regarding furniture, objets de art, vases, brasses, etc., and with a host of illustrations in the text. Formerly owned by the New York horologist, Winthrop Edey, whose entire collection was bequeathed to the Frick. (Inventory #: 103633)