[Rarebooks] FS: Italian Furniture - 1918 Limited Ed. by Odom

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“A History of Italian Furniture from the Fourteenth to the Early 
Nineteenth Centuries”

By William M. Odom.
Published in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1918-1919.
Limited to 500 sets.

A large, well-illustrated classic on Italian furniture of the Gothic, 
Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classical Revival and Empire periods. Odom 
published his work when interest in and appreciation for the arts and 
crafts of the Italian Renaissance was peaking in America and England, 
and it followed several other noted English language studies of Italian 
woodwork, interiors, architecture and carving. In many Renaissance-era 
craft centers, but especially in Italy, the same workers who created the 
beautifully-carved church and house interior woodwork and sculptures 
also made the furniture, so the subjects were inextricably linked. Odom, 
however, was the first English-language writer to focus on furniture, 
and he drew his examples mainly from American, Italian, and some 
English, collections, both public and private. Many examples were drawn 
from the stock of high-end New York dealers such as Bardini and Volpi, 
and others came from the N metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria & 
Albert. The rest were in private hands; some of those examples have 
since migrated to museums, others have changed location or disappeared 
from public view entirely. Indeed, the second volume which begins after 
the Renaissance and features Baroque and Classical pieces, is drawn 
almost exclusively from private collections, as most connoisseurs of the 
period, Odom included, viewed these styles as debased and vulgar, and 
unworthy of museum collections. For present-day fans of 17th and 18th 
century work doom's text can, therefor, be a bit challenging, or perhaps 
aggravating, but it stand s as a perfect mirror of the scholarly tastes 
of his period. Whether one agrees or disagrees with some of his 
aesthetic judgements, Odom's work remains a cornerstone of furniture 
literature, and a magnificent achievement.

2 volumes. Hardcover. 11"x15", xx + 364 pages & xxv + 422 pages, 865 
black & white illustrations. Covers a bit faded and with light soil, 
light wear, slight 1-inch gouge in the outer rear hinge of Volume 2. 
Slight scattered internal soil, several minor binding cracks, but tight 
and good.  Today's Special net Price: $400 ppd.

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