Decorative Arts
66 items found
[Pattern book]
Musterbuch für Stahldruck.
Unpublished [n.d., but ca. 1890]. Folio (32.5 x 21.0 cm). Ca. 150 leaves with over 2,500 finely hand-coloured decorative transfers in Art Nouveau and romantic styles. Black blind half calf over black boards. Front board with original, neatly handwritten label.
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Motifs de décorations. Première série de cinquante planches en couleurs extraites de Journal-Manuel de Peintures.
Paris, A. Morel, 1862. Royal Folio (52.1 x 36.2 cm). Half-title and title page; 50 fine chromolithographed plates on thick paper. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised gilt-stippled and gilt-bordered bands, gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreDiebener, W. (ed.)
Monograms and decorations intended for the use of engravers in precious metals watches and kindred trades. Invented and designed by: Ewald Menzel, Berlin - Gustav Gessner, Glashütte - Richard Langner, München - Georg Wastian, Dresden. First and second editions.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Diebener, 1902. Large 4to (30.8 x 23.6 cm). Title in red and black; 12 pp.; 101 chromolithographed plates [numbered 1-78, Anhang 1-22, 14A]. Original olive buckram with gilt title on the spine and gilt title and monogram on the front board. Bevelled edges. Jugendstil-patterned endpapers.
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