[Rarebooks] FS: Victorian Guide to House Decoration

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Thu Oct 24 07:21:09 EDT 2013


TITLE: “L'Art dans La Maison (Grammaire de l'Ameublement)”

By Henri Havard.
Published in Paris by Edouard Rouveyre, no date but around 1880. 4th edition.

DISCUSSION: Henry Havard [1838-1921], although he spent his professional
life in France and wrote in French, was born in Holland.  He was a
prolific researcher and writer on the decorative arts, authoring an
important study of Delft faience as well as other books on ceramics,
interiors, and furniture. This standard history of French furniture and
interior decoration stands, for its period, second only to Havard's
magnificent 4-volume Dictionnaire de l'ameublement, whose scope was, of
course, much larger than that of the present work. This book includes
information on materials used in the decoration of the Victorian-era house
as well as historical background, a grammar of furniture, installation,
access, reception rooms, the library, billiard room, and so on and so
forth, and on and on.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 8.5"x12", vi + 411 pages, 50 full-page wood
engraved plates printed in various colored inks and 269 wood engraved
illustrations in the text. Quarter leather with raised bands and gilt
titles and medallions, marbled boards.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers rubbed and a bit worn, some internal foxing.

PRICE:  $175 -

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