Les Art Arabes. Menuiserie – Bronzes – Plafonds – Revètements – Marbres – Pavements – Vitreaux, etc. 92 plates (Vol. I Only)
Paris: A. Morel et Cie, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. [8] viii, 28, 4, 3pp., 92 plates bound in on tabs. Bound in half leather, front cover and top and bottom compartments of spine missing, with gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spine.
The most important collection of decorative details of Islamic architectural designs - preceding the 1877 Prisse d'Avennes, L'Art Arabe d'Apres Les Monumets du Kaire Depuis le VIIe Siècke Jusqu'la Fin du XVIIIe" - rendered with fifty-one full page chromolithographs, several with heightened gilt and silver embellishments, seven tinted plates, and thirty-four rendered lithographically. The drawings in the introductory text by Bourgoin are rendered lithographically. These spectacular, geometric designs are bound in consecutively up to plate 84, with 76 and 77 corrected in pencil over printed nos. 81 and 82. The following plates are not all bound in consecutively: plates 86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 96, and 99. Missing are plates 85 (substituted with a duplicate of plate 84), 88, 91, 93-95, 97-98.
Block with foxing of text plates and mostly margins of drawings, affecting twenty-five designs of b/w reproductions mildly, and one chromolithograph. Water-staining in top and foredge margins of block throughout. Half-title partially torn. Short inked note on title page. Poor to fine condition. Poor to fine condition. Item #56025
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