(ARCHITECTURE) Exterior Decoration A Treatise on the Artisti

Sale 1972 - Lot 6

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BEAUTIFUL PLATES OF ORNAMENTAL PAINTING (ARCHITECTURE.) Exterior Decoration: A Treatise on the Artistic Use of Colors in the Ornamentation of Buildings, and a Series of Designs Illustrating the Effects of Different Combinations of Colors in Connection with Various Styles of Architecture. 20 richly chromolithographed plates; 25 mounted paint swatches; numerous advertisements at rear. Oblong folio, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, stained and dampsoiled, lower inch of spine missing; plates generally bright and clean but for mild toning in the margins. New York and Chicago: Devoe & Company, 1885

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One of the lavish books of painting designs for buildings produced in the 1880s in the manner of John Lucas and Company. "These fall somewhere between books and trade catalogues, intended to promote products and provide design ideas"--Reese, Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books, 68.