Wall-papers of France 1800-1850, A Zwemmer Ltd, 1981, Very Good hardcover w/DJ

Nouvel, Odile, and Jean-Pierre Seguin. London: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1981.

French, English, & German, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 11 7/8" x 8 1/2", 132 pp. 

ISBN: 0302005471 

Hardcover in blue cloth. Minor cocking to spine. Very Good maroon pictorial dust jacket, some shelf wear, light sunning, now in Mylar. 132 pp. Includes 600 full-color reproductions of French wallpaper designs, along with some black-and-white images related to their production. A wonderful collection of hundreds of wallpaper designs from France in the early to mid 1800s, with examples of repeat designs, vertical and arabesque panels, draperies, and much more. A wonderful reference for 19th-century French decorative arts and the common motifs found there, all from the large archives of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes in Mulhouse, and the Bibliothèque Forney in Paris.