Drawing on the extensive collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, as well as from sources across America and Europe, the author documents the changing tastes in pattern and color preferences.
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Drawing on the extensive collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, as well as from sources across America and Europe, the author documents the changing tastes in pattern and color preferences.
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VG- in VG- jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Hardback bound in cream colored cloth-covered boards with gilt title on the spine. Book is sunned along the edges of the cover and there is foxing on closed page edges. Dust jacket has tear on the front top at the fold and at the spine and there is chipping along the back top edge. Book is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to former owner on the title page. Black and white frontis with tissue guard in place. Numerous color plates of wallpaper with some black and white photos. 533 pages including the Index.
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Near fine in very good(-) jacket. Illustrated throughout with 102 color plates and 245 halftones. 533 pages. Thick square 4to, white cloth, dust wrapper (several taped tears). New York: Norton, (1980). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.
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Good/Good (foxing to blocks and edges of boards, bumping to corners. Text and illustrations are otherwise clean and clear. ) Cream cloth, gilt letters on spine & on front cover, color pictorial dust jacket with mylar cover, bw frontispiece with tissue paper guard, 533 pp., many BW & color plates. "Surveys the most distinctive styles used in America from the seventeenth century, when their presence can first be documented, to World War I, when the taste makers began to associate the plain white wall with all that was 'Modern." (dj) Highly illustrative. Contents include: pt. 1. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. --The earliest American wall hangings--How wallpaper was made--Eighteenth-century English wallpaper styles--Eighteenth-century French wallpaper styles--Oriental wallpapers--Eighteenth-century American wallpapers--The paper hanger's stock in trade--Color schemes and the use of wallpapers--pt. 2. The nineteenth century. --French scenic wallpapers--French wallpaper ornaments of the early and mid-nineteenth century--French wallpapers and the development of the American craft--Repeating patterns of the early nineteenth century--Bandboxes--Making wallpaper by machine--1840 to 1870: the imprint of machines, the elaboration of styles--The 1870s and 1880s: a major change in taste--1890 to 1915: revivals and the pursuit of novelty.
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Very good. Hardcover. 517pp+ index. Page edges foxed, else a very good hardback in a price clipped, tanned and edgeworn jacket that has a few small closed tears.
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Good+ in good+ jacket. 1980. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 533pp with frontis and illustrations. good+ in good+ dust jacket. Wear and light chipping to head of dust jacket. Light foxing to extremities of dust jacket. Foxing to edges. Internally clean and unmarked.