English Chintz From Earliest Times Until the Present Day

Frank Lewis

Verlag: F. Lewis Limited, Essex, 1935

Beschreibung

A limited edition ode to the art of English chintz, a lovely work replete with over one-hundred and fifty plates showing examples of patterned chintz throughout. A limited edition work, limited to five-hundred copies, of which this is numbered one-hundred and sixty-six.Tracing the history of chintz from the earliest times to the 1930s, this work is an ode to the art. Chintz is a woodblock printed, painted, or strained calico textile, the cloth printed with designs often featuring flowers in different colours, typically on a light plain background cloth.Chitnz originated in Golconda, present day Hyderabad in India, in the sixteenth century.Illustrated with a tipped-in frontispiece, and one-hundred and fifty-one tipped-in plates.By Frank Lewis. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with some marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. Front hinge is lightly strained but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 788P7

Bibliografische Details

Titel: English Chintz From Earliest Times Until the...

Verlag: F. Lewis Limited, Essex

Erscheinungsdatum: 1935

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Various

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: book