[Rarebooks] FS: Magnificent 1889 Maiolica Study, 1/285 copies

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Argnani, Federigo.  "Le Ceramiche e Maioliche Faentine dalla loro origine
fino al principio del secolo xvi..."

Faenza; Giuseppe Montanari Editore: 1889.
Edition limited to 285 numbered copies.

One of the major studies of the maiolica of Faenza of the 15th and 16th
centuries written by Professor Argnani, curator of the Civic Museum in
Faenze. Solon notes Argnani's special love for, and interest in, the
antique maiolica wares, and indeed the author drew and colored the
illustrations himself. Argnani's interests were varied, and he is still
remembered in Faenza as a "unique patriotic and artistic character" under
whose supervision the Municipal Art Gallery was expanded and moved to the
ex-Jesuit convent where it is still located.

The pieces of maiolica shown in these outstanding colored plates are
mainly examples of everyday wares, brilliantly decorated. Solon, writing
in 1906, called them "rude" and their decorations "uncouth". Today that
judgment would be rephrased, although I think I like "uncouth".

Hardcover. 10"x14", xii + 83 pages, plus 20 folding chromolithographed
plates. Red cloth with a leather spine, spine somewhat scuffed, cloth with
some soil. Contents with some foxing to the preliminaries, a little foxing
to the text, and a little to the plates, primarily confined to the very
outer margin; one plate has a 1" tear on the margin.  $1,750.00


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