CREATIONS IN ECCLESIASTICAL ART: Daprato Altars

Descripción

Lavish trade catalogue from the Chicago-based company specializing in custom-designed and exquisitely crafted marble altars and furnishings for churches. Quarto: 429, [2, index], [1, blank] pp. with and illuminated frontispiece and 2 text pages, all color halftones, as well as a copyright vignette and 408 plates, all halftones after photographs, and 2 marble sample pages, both color halftones after photographs. The title page and text pages are printed in red, gray, and black, with page borders printed in red and gray. In the publisher's brown flat-weave cloth binding, with dark brown-stamped ruled borders, strapwork surround with floral ornamental infill and ecclesiastical devices, and overall "Cordova leather" pattern field, and gilt-embossed decorative titling on the front panel; dark brown-stamped ornamental bands, strapwork and floral compartments, and altar vignette, and gilt-stamped decorative titling on the spine; and dark brown-stamped overall "Cordova leather" pattern. All edges gilt, with brown endpapers with dark brown-printed diaper and ornament pattern with central altar vignette. Some general edgewear to the boards; otherwise very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin.

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Título

CREATIONS IN ECCLESIASTICAL ART: Daprato Altars

Editor

Daprato Statuary Company, New York, Chicago, Montreal

Fecha de publicación

1925

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

Fifteenth Edition.

Estado

Very good

Catálogos de vendedores

• Religion