Historic Wall-Papers: From their Inception to the Introduction of Machinery

Bound in tan buckram over tan cloth stamped in dark green with illustration of early wallpaper to front panel. A limited edition (stated on Mild rubbing to spine ends. 458 pages : illustrations (some color), folded table. Contents include: Introduction / by Henri Clouzot -- The scope of this history -- Period I. The earliest block-printed papers in France -- Period I (continued). The first block-stamped papers in England -- Period II. Papers imitating tapestries and woven stuffs -- Period III. Paper imitating printed fabrics -- Chinese, Anglo-Chinese, and Franco-Chinese papers -- Period IV. Paper imitating painted panels French -- Period IV (continued). Paper imitating painted panels English -- Period V. The epoch of scenic papers -- Painted scenic papers, fireboards, borders, overdoors and screens -- Early American wall-papers -- Some famous scenic papers and their owners -- Translation from Dufour's booklet on the Captain Cook wall-paper -- Conspectus of biography of wall-paper designers, manufacturers, and dealers from 1500-1840 -- Wall-papers issued by some of the French fabricants of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…