Art De Confectionner Les Fleurs Artifcielles; Nouvelle edition orne de figures et dediee aux Dames
by Blocquel, Mme
- Used
- Condition
- Orig. printed light gray wrappers chipped with slight loss at one lower corner (front cover) and one upper corner (back cover).
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Delarue, 1850. Original Wraps. Orig. printed light gray wrappers chipped with slight loss at one lower corner (front cover) and one upper corner (back cover). Very good.. 272 pages in text. 15 x 10 1/2 cm. 25 numbered full-page plates (some double-paged), plus 32 supplemental plates numbered A-Z, AA-FF, with additional plates and illustrations within the text - all in black and white. Text in French, interior clean, initial decorated letters, Glossary of Principal Terms. Practically speaking, artificial flowers differed only in a single feature -- whereas real flowers wilt, 18th and 19th century cloth, paper or wax blooms were relatively imperishable. In the Victorian era artificial flowers were ubiquitous, a woman's garland for all seasons including her death. Initially fashioning flowers was considered an art and craft explicitly reserved for genteel women. Ex-library, internal marking only, discreet one centimeter round on verso of some plates.
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Details
- Seller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18929
- Title
- Art De Confectionner Les Fleurs Artifcielles; Nouvelle edition orne de figures et dediee aux Dames
- Author
- Blocquel, Mme
- Format/Binding
- Original Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. printed light gray wrappers chipped with slight loss at one lower corner (front cover) and one upper corner (back cover).
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Delarue
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1850
- Keywords
- Design; New Arrivals
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costume; Women; Textiles; Fashion;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...