[Rarebooks] FS: Painted Tapestry for Wall Decoration in 1879

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Painted Tapestry and Its Application to Interior Decoration. Practical
Lessons in Tapestry Painting with Liquid Colour"

By Julien Godon. Published in London by Lechertier, Barbe, and Co. in 1879.

A striking manual on the Victorian-era Revivalist craft of painted
tapestry, meant as a cheaper, more easily available alternative to
original Medieval and Gothic woven tapestry. This book includes complete
instructions for reproducing various styles of tapestry with watercolors
on coarse cloth, as well as vivid color plates illustrating the various
stages of a tapestry in progress. There are also instructions for using
albumen, wax, oil and acid painting, and gilding. Godon’s French text was
translated for this English edition by Benjamin Bucknall, a noted
Gothic-Revivalist architect and translator and popularizer of the works of
Violett-le-Duc. Bucknall designed and partially built one of the most
famous Gothic Revival mansions in all England, the brilliant, unfinished
Woodchester in Stroud.

Hardcover. 6.5”x10”, xviii + 89 pages, plus 6 color plates; plus a 26-page
catalog of artist’s supplies. Covers with light wear and some soil (see
photo). Contents clean and nice.  $250~

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