[Rarebooks] FS: 1880 French Interiors & Furniture, Drapery, Decoration and Style

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“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.

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.

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. Covers rubbed and a bit worn, some internal 
foxing. $85

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