[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1810 Color Plate Book of Venetian Stone Floors

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Praktische Anweisung zur Verfertigung der Venezianischen Estriche”

By H.F. Rodlich, H.F.
Printed in Berlin by C.H. Platen in 1810.

DISCUSSION: A very lovely book on the art of making Venetian crushed-stone
floors which illustrates the tools and the step-by-step processes
involved. Venetian crushed stone floors are a rather difficult subject
-very little material about them is available in the literature. Certainly
the neo-classic elements are unmistakable, and the influence of recently
excavated Roman ruins must have played a part in their popularity in Italy
and, as this book illustrates, Germany. The plates show the stone being
prepared and colored, the floor surface being planned, laid-out and
prepared, and the stone being applied and smoothed. The workmen are all
stylishly dressed for such a dirty job, and appear very happy at their
tasks. Young boys help with the work in a number of plates. Obviously a
labor and time-intensive task, the laying of a stone floor is chronicled
here in hand-colored plates that can only be described as jewel-like, and
yet are also fairly realistic. A rare book.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 8.5"x10.5", 28 pages of text plus 24 hand-colored
engraved plates on 12 leaves. Bound in new quarter leather with marbled
boards.

CONDITION NOTES: Very slight stains in several places, several very
discreet remnants of old institutional stamps, but overall an exceptional
example of a rare work.

PRICE: $8,500. -

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