Isbn: 9781584561101 - the winterthur library revealed: five centuries of design and inspiration (5 Ergebnisse)

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Original publisher's sewn brown-red paperback, pictorial front- & backcover, large 4to: 100pp., foreword & introduction, 5 chapters, CATALOGUE of 127 items depicted & described - with notes & references, acknowledgements, index. Very fine copy - as new.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to (28 cm), xii, 100 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, containing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images with subjects ranging from printed patterns of the 16th century to colonial-revival design drawings of the 20th. These five centuries of books, drawings and ephemera represent the work of artisans, manufacturers, advertisers and a wealth of other hands through which the material surroundings of our everyday lives have passed. Each highlights the ways in which library resources contribute greatly to the stories of decorative arts objects. The catalogue precede by an essays and entries about the founding of the library and all aspects of its collections and illustrated with over 100 color and black-and-white photographs.…