[Rarebooks] FS: Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries, 1913

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      [DECORATIVE ARTS]  FFOULKE, Charles M.  The Ffoulke Collection of 
Tapestries.  Arranged by Charles M. Ffoulke.  New York: Privately 
Printed, 1913.  $650
      One of 250 copies printed by Frederic Fairchild Sherman.  With a 
portrait frontispiece, 4 color plates, and 70 sepia illustrations.  
Folio, bound in the original dark blue morocco, gilt lettered spine, 
gilt ruled panels on the spine and gilt rule frame on the covers, silk 
doublures.  346 pp.  Upper cover slightly discolored, some rubbing to 
the joints, flyleaves with browning caused by the leather turn-ins, a 
few finger smudges to the text, but still a very good copy.
      A very handsomely printed catalogue of Ffoulke's Flemish, French, 
and Italian tapestries, in a binding signed by the printer.  Ffoulke 
spent his youth as a student devoted to literature and his early 
adulthood building up his wool business.  After contracting rheumatoid 
gout he travelled to Europe in 1872, where he met and married Sarah 
Cushman, daughter of Abel Cushman of Boston.  They returned to the 
States and he devoted himself to business for another decade.  Then in 
1884 they moved to Nice and subsequently Florence, at a point when 
Ffoulke was financial able to satisfy his taste for European art works. 
  In 1889 he acquired the 135 tapestries that the Barberini family was 
willing to part with.  He was one of the founders of the National 
Academy of Art, and upon his death left notes and manuscript material 
for a three-volume work on the history of tapestries.
      The introduction to this volume was written by Ernest Verlant, 
Directeur general des Beaux-Arts a Bruxelles.   A splendid work.

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