Handel Lamps: Painted Shades & Glassware by Robert De Falco - 1986

Staten Island: H & D Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG- light shelf wear to dust jacket.. Black cloth boards with stamped illustration and lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with burgundy and white lettering. 254 pp. Mainly color illustrations.

Staten Island, NY: H & D Press, Inc., (1986). Quarto, black cloth (hardcover), ribbon marker, 254 pp. Very Good+, with light edgewear and speckling to endpapers; in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: The fifty years spanning the turn of the 20th century witnessed unprecedented attention to the development of the decorative arts, employing the romantic ideas of the 19th century and the resources of the machine age. No medium better illustrates the successful combination of artistic design with technological advancement than decorative lighting. Today’s art historians recognize two names as the forerunners in this branch of artistic manufacutre: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Phillip Julius Handel.Tiffany focused his attention on the leaded glass shades with which his name is now synonomous, and Handel his art on the painted lamp shades which have, in turn, become generically known as “Handel Lamps.” The Handel lamp tradition began exactly a century ago this year, in 1885, when… Read More

Staten Island, NY: H & D Press, Inc, 1986. First Edition, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, with a Very Good dust jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout, mostly in color. 4to, 12 1/4"h x 9 1/2"w.