blocquel mme (2 risultati)

Original Wraps. 272 pages in text. 15 x 10 1/2 cm. 25 numbered full-page plates (some double-paged), plus 32 supplemental plates numbered A-Z, AA-FF, with additional plates and illustrations within the text - all in black and white. Text in French, interior clean, initial decorated letters, Glossary of Principal Terms. Practically speaking, artificial flowers differed only in a single feature -- whereas real flowers wilt, 18th and 19th century cloth, paper or wax blooms were relatively imperishable. In the Victorian era artificial flowers were ubiquitous, a woman's garland for all seasons including her death. Initially fashioning flowers was considered an art and craft explicitly reserved for genteel women. Ex-library, internal marking only, discreet one centimeter round on verso of some plates. Orig. printed light gray wrappers chipped with slight loss at one lower corner (front cover) and one upper corner (back cover). Very good.

8vo. 5.5 x 3.75 inches. 194+ [1] pp. Bound in contemporary half calf, gilt, over marbled boards. A little wear to extremities and front hinge just starting to crack; some light foxing of flyleaves and preliminaries, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 25 engraved plates, including frontispiece, including frontispiece, double page and folding, and by section at end, planches supplementaires, 17 pages of engraved plates. Decorated by vignettes, including title page and head and tailpiece. Scarce French work on the making of artificial flowers for decorative purposes. Well illustrated by engravings and including supplementary sections. Very scarce edition of this work. CRAFTS FLOWERS DECORATIVE ARTS FRENCH 19TH CENTURY CRAFTS.