making pictures patterns (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

First edition of one of the earliest and certainly most attractive of the English pattern books introducing the process of japanning ("an art much admir'd by us, and all those who hold any commerce with the Inhabitants of Japan"), alongside accounts of techniques for decorating furniture and small objects, such as varnishing, burnishing, and gilding. More than technical details, the book provides influential images of an imagined orient, marking the growth of the contemporary taste for what became known as chinoiserie (Europeans showed little discrimination in distinguishing the sources of imported Asian styles). The book contains more than a hundred distinct patterns for japan-work, as well as more general designs of birds, animals, flowers, and landscapes. The book was published in at least four variants, with no known priority between them, listing either Stalker or George Parker as the author, offering it for sale in London and Oxford, as well as, contemporary advertisements make clear, Edinburgh and Dublin. Wing S5187A. Large folio (374 x 238 mm). With 24 engraved plates. Contemporary blind-panelled calf, later paper spine label lettered by hand. Bookplate of Robert Townley Parker (17931879) dated 1858, and two much earlier manuscript notes to front pastedown. Some repair to front board and corners, front free endpaper removed, short closed tear to foot of O2, professional repair to tear to fore edge of plate 2, a few trivial blemishes, overall a very good copy.