J b carponnier ilustrator (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+ to fine condition. First edition. Small Folio. [8] xxxviii, 2, 41-272, 206pp., 35, 2 plates. Original pebbled red half leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Marbled endpapers. Decorative and historiated initials and endpieces. All text pages with decorative framing. Published under the patronage of the Belgium King with the approval of higher ecclesiastic authority. Edmond Lévy was an architect and professor of archaeology. In this study, in cooperation with the artist J.-B. Carponnier, Lévy introduces the history of glass painting considering religious, archaeological and artistic elements of the subject. Contains a general history of glass painting in part one, and a descriptive analysis of the glass painters in Belgium in part two of this work. Illustrated with thirty-seven plates rendered in lithography, including twenty-seven spectacular plates in chromolithography. The majority of the plates are folding plates. Contains a list of plates and an alphabetical index of glass painters. Text in French. Binding with light wear, light scuffing at joints of spine and along edges. Plates twenty-three and thirty with creasing of edges near gutter, not affecting images. These in fine condition. Block with very light age-toning.…