Wallpaper in America: From the Seventeenth Century to World War I.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1980. Hardcover. Good/Good (foxing to blocks and edges of boards, bumping to corners. Text and illustrations are otherwise clean and clear.). Cream cloth, gilt letters on spine & on front cover, color pictorial dust jacket with mylar cover,bw frontispiece with tissue paper guard, 533 pp., many BW & color plates. "Surveys the most distinctive styles used in America from the seventeenth century, when their presence can first be documented, to World War I, when the taste makers began to associate the plain white wall with all that was 'Modern." (dj) Highly illustrative. Contents include: pt. 1. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. -- The earliest American wall hangings -- How wallpaper was made -- Eighteenth-century English wallpaper styles -- Eighteenth-century French wallpaper styles -- Oriental wallpapers -- Eighteenth-century American wallpapers -- The paper hanger's stock in trade -- Color schemes and the use of wallpapers -- pt. 2. The nineteenth century. -- French scenic wallpapers -- French wallpaper ornaments of the early and mid-nineteenth century -- French wallpapers and the development of the American craft -- Repeating patterns of the early nineteenth century -- Bandboxes -- Making wallpaper by machine -- 1840 to 1870: the imprint of machines, the elaboration of styles -- The 1870s and 1880s: a major change in taste -- 1890 to 1915: revivals and the pursuit of novelty.