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Charles Scribner's Sons; B. T. Batsford Ltd., New York and London, 1925. Hardcover in publishers blue buckram with gilt ruling design and lettering on front cover and spine, top edge gilt with others uncut. Pages may shown some age spots and tanning. Some markings, discolouration and soiling to lower board and edges. Illustrated frontispiece, including 70 plates in colour and 190 illustrations in half-tone. "The pages, then, that follow are intended chiefly as a tribute to the pioneers whose work, whether in an artistic, a mechanical, or any other capacity, laid the foundations of the very important art-industy of manufacturing paper-hangings which has been built up in this country. The scope of the book is as comprehensive as it has been practicable to make it. Beginning with the first crude attempts to use paper bearing a design or picture as a form of decoration in substitution for the costly gilt embossed leathers and figured textiles of the period, the development in technical and artistic achievement is traced down to the year 1914." William Morris is his lecture on "The Lesser Arts of Life" said: - " Whatever you have in your rooms, think first of the walls, for they are that which makes your house and home, and if you do not make some sacrifices in their favour you will find your chambers have a kind of make-shift, lodging-house look about them, however rich and handsome your movables may be." A very scarce and hard to find publication. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Please note, this is a very heavy book, additional postage may be requested from international orders. Seller Inventory # ABE-1620841658008
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