1831, 1832, 1835, 1835. · Ilmenau & Weimar
by MATTHAEY, CARL.
BIEDERMEIER DESIGN
Four fascicles in one volume, complete. 8vo, plain calf spine and brown marbled paper boards, worn and somewhat scraped but sound; internally fresh. Only edition of a rare Biedermeier pattern and ornament book for the use of craftsmen and architects at the time that the style was emerging in a transitional period between Neoclassicism and Romanticism for the new urban classes of Germany, Austria and Scandinavia between 1815 and 1848 in literature, music, interior design and visual arts. Matthaey (1778-1848) was an architect and writer on architecture, author of a number of practical works.
Twenty lithographed plates in each fascicle for a total of eighty with descriptive text of designs and motifs for gold- and silversmiths, carpenters, woodworkers, furniture and fabric designers, porcelain factories, glass and iron workers and equipment and accessories for horses.Engelmann, Bibliotheca Mechanico-Technologica, 238. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art Supplement, pages 414-415 lists only Parts 1 and 2. Not in Berlin Katalog. Three holdings in German libraries and copies at the Getty and the British Library, according to WorldCat/OCLC. (Inventory #: 4634)
Four fascicles in one volume, complete. 8vo, plain calf spine and brown marbled paper boards, worn and somewhat scraped but sound; internally fresh. Only edition of a rare Biedermeier pattern and ornament book for the use of craftsmen and architects at the time that the style was emerging in a transitional period between Neoclassicism and Romanticism for the new urban classes of Germany, Austria and Scandinavia between 1815 and 1848 in literature, music, interior design and visual arts. Matthaey (1778-1848) was an architect and writer on architecture, author of a number of practical works.
Twenty lithographed plates in each fascicle for a total of eighty with descriptive text of designs and motifs for gold- and silversmiths, carpenters, woodworkers, furniture and fabric designers, porcelain factories, glass and iron workers and equipment and accessories for horses.Engelmann, Bibliotheca Mechanico-Technologica, 238. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art Supplement, pages 414-415 lists only Parts 1 and 2. Not in Berlin Katalog. Three holdings in German libraries and copies at the Getty and the British Library, according to WorldCat/OCLC. (Inventory #: 4634)
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