Exterior Decoration

Devoe, F.W.

Verlag: F.W. Devoe & Company, 1885

Beschreibung

Exterior Decoration, F.W. Devoe & Company, New York, Coffin, Devoe & Company, New York, 90 pp plus paint samples, plus advertisements for Devoe, original brown pebble cloth, 15 x 12 , folio. In good condition. Superb condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing to corners and edges. Top half of front board has line of scuffing and discoloration. Does not affect integrity of cloth, merely the aesthetic. Light rubbing to gilt finishing. Bookplate of Maurice Robert Des Marais on front end pastedown. Des Marais was a longtime faculty member in the Department of Architecture at Penn State College of Arts and Architecture and a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects. Front gutter has been repaired with library tape by previous owner. Interior lightly toned. A few small areas of spotting, but free of foxing for the most part. Plates in beautiful condition. Lovely and bright. Paint samples are lightly chipped at edges. a few are askew from their original place holders. Free of known markings. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Any additional questions can be answered via our messages or e-mail. Additional photos at request. An amazing piece of architectural history! Incredibly scarce and important. Worthy of a museum or university library collection. A treatise on the artistic use of colors in the ornamentation of buildings, and a series of designs, illustrating the effects of different combinations of colors in connection with various styles of architecture. Illustrated with twenty chromolithographed plates with letterpress description opposite, plus two plates with fifty paint samples and 20pp of ads in the rear for Devoe & Co products, some with color printing. Color documentation is a most difficult problem facing the owner of a period house who wants to paint it authentically. This volume uses full-page color lithographs in duplicate to demonstrate the effects of different color schemes and how they can be combined successfully. Each paint color on the houses in the color lithographs is keyed by a number to a specific ready-mix paint chip bound in at the rear. The purpose of this book was to make available rare primary documents on nineteenth-century architecture and decoration to which curators, collectors, architects and preservationists could refer. Topics on some of the other titles in the series included works on drapery, architectural ironwork, lighting fixtures, Gothic Revival furniture, plumbing, kitchens and architectural pattern work. A reprint facsimile of this volume was issued in 1975 as the first publication in a new series entitled The Athenaeum Library of Nineteenth Century America. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RAREA1885OZCD

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Exterior Decoration

Verlag: F.W. Devoe & Company

Erscheinungsdatum: 1885

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket