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THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL by Wright, Frank Lloyd & Wm C. Gannet

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Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books
Title
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
Author
Wright, Frank Lloyd & Wm C. Gannet
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
River Forest: Auvergne Pr., 1896-7. Hardcover. Good +. Printed by hand by Wm H. Winslow & F.L. Wright... Limited to 100 copies & signed by Wright & Winslow. Some soiling on covers as usual, but interior very good. Winslow was Wright's first client. The book was printed in Winslow's barn. This book is the first book Wright was involved with.
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Munsell Book of Color: Matte Finish Collection, removable Samples in a Binder. by MUNSELL COLOR COMPANY,Inc

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Seller: Ursus Books
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Munsell Book of Color: Matte Finish Collection, removable Samples in a Binder.
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MUNSELL COLOR COMPANY,Inc
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Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1976. MUNSELL COLOR COMPANY, Inc. Munsell Book of Color. Matte Finish Collection. 40 sheets of tipped-in samples. Folio, 280 x 225 mm., ringed binder. Baltimore, MD.: Munsell, 1976. This edition of Munsell is a handsome and scarce version of this renowned work, which was first published in 1929. The compilers maintained that the work would be particularly useful for colour quality control.
Galerie de Portraits de Personnages Celebres

Galerie de Portraits de Personnages Celebres by NAPOLEONICA

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Galerie de Portraits de Personnages Celebres
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NAPOLEONICA
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Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: Osterwald l’ainé, 1816. 16mo (135 x 96 mm). Wrapper title. Two livraisons (all published): 1) 4 pp., [9] stipple-engraved plates, a few signed by Bosselman, one after Coeuré.  2) [1] leaf, [7] plates. Light foxing to first text page. On guards. Original blue printed wrappers, edges untrimmed,  preserved in late 19th or early 20th-century  straight-grained dark blue morocco gilt, edges untrimmed (spine sunned). Provenance: Antoine Bordes, bookplate; Sidney G. Reilly, Napoleonica collector, bookplate (sale, New York, American Art Association, 4 May 1921, lot 830).  Only Edition. A quirky little royalist publication, probably intended for children, containing 16 stipple-engraved portraits of Napoleon and his family, ranging from small to tiny, as well as Louis XVI and his family, and, in the second part, the reigning King, Louis XVIII, the former Empress Marie-Luise, the Duchesse d’Angouleme (Marie-Antoinette’s daughter), Lucien Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon), and Prince Eugène (Napoleon’s adopted son).  The introduction explains the seemingly odd juxtaposition of Emperor and Royalty, as a way of highlighting their respective historical and moral significance: for example, while Louis XVI and Napoleon both lost the throne, the one was “victim of his own goodness” while the other was “a plaything of his own madness” (un jouet de sa fureur), one was stingy with French blood, while the other expended it freely; finally each represent a link in the chain of being, one to the angels, the other to the demons.  Mystifyingly, two of the portraits in the second part were engraved in miniature, on a regular plate. The contents page describes them as “tres-petits” and leaves it at that. David-Ferdinand Ostervald (1763-1843), called “the elder” to distinguish him from his brother the cartographer Jean-Frédéric Ostervald, published prints, print suites, and illustrated books in Paris from the 18teens to the 1820s. OCLC lists 5 copies of which 3 in the US: UNC Chapel Hill, Univ. of Washington, and Syracuse University. The Syracuse copy dates the book to 1816 after the portfolio title; the entry for the UNC and U. Washington copies, which clearly lack the wrappers with imprint, erroneously dates the edition to 1880 and cites 17 plates, but our copy contains all of the plates called for in the introduction to part 1 and the table of contents to part 2.  Not in the BnF catalogue.