Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Papier Peint. Tableaux-Tentures de Dufour & Leroy

Paris: Librairie des Arts Decoratifs A. Calavas, [1930]. Hardback. Good Only. 13" by 10". Not Stated. An uncommon portfolio work looking at impressive painted French wallpapers by Dufour and Leroy, complete with plates, including six in colour. An uncommon work.In the original portfolio binding.Illustrated with a total of fifty-four plates on forty-one plates, six of which are in colour. Thirteen of the plates are folding, with two plate illustrations printed to one plate, being Plates I and II, VI and VII, X and XI, XV and XVI, XVIII and XIX, XXII and XXIII, XXVI and XXVII, XXXI and XXXII, XXXV and XXXVI, XXXIX and XL, XLIII and XLIV, XLVIII and XLIX, and LII and LIII.Plates II and III, VI and VII are a folding plate, with both illustrations to one plate.Collated, complete.In the original French.A beautiful and definitive study on impressive French painted wallpapers. The scenic wallpapers are vividly depicted in the fifty-four plates.With an introduction by Henri Clouzot, conservateur at the Musee Galliera, a museum of fashion and fashion history in Paris, which is now named the Palais Galliera. Undated, dated from WorldCat. In the original publisher's paper covered portfolio binding, with ribbon ties present. Externally, worn. Lacking the backstrip. Light discolouration and minor marks to the boards. Small crack to the head of the front joint and tail of the rear joint. Internally, unbound, as issued. Pages are bright and clean. Light offsetting to the reverse of the plates. Good Only