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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
2-Aug-2014
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Description:
Book of Designs. Habert-Dys, J[ules-Auguste]. Fantaisies Decoratives. Documents pour servir a la decoration des Faiences, Meubles, Tissus, Bijoux, appartements, etc. .... Quarante-huit planches renfermant environ deux cents motifs. Paris, Librairie de l'Art, n.d. [1887] 48 chromolithograph plates. Heightened with gold, on cream paper, mounted on heavy white paper, (4)pp. title and list of plates. Some light marginal foxing to first 6 and last 2 plates. Folio, loose as issued in publisher's portfolio, illustrated boards, cloth spine neatly rebacked. An uncommon folio of proto-Art Nouveau designs for ceramics, furniture, textiles, wall and ceiling decoration &c., much influenced by Japanese art, superbly printed by Gillot. Originally issued in 12 parts 1886-7.
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Unclassified