From Sillan Books, Cootehill, CAVAN, Ireland
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About this Item
First edition. Large vo. 124 pages of text. 173 black and white plates, photographs. Icolour 4 colour plates and black and whte fascimiles. Maps on endpapers. Blue cloth, very good in chipped clipt dustwrapper in protective film cover. Contents: The Guild of Plasterers. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Age of Swift and Molyneux. New Stylistic Influences. The Francini. Mespil Ceilings and the 1750-1760 Decade. The Rotunda Hospital Chapel. Robert West and others. Charles Thorp and Others. Michael Stapleton. Epilogue."This first authoritative and richly illsutrated publication , covering the elegance of Rococo plasterwork in Dublin, must remain unique. C. P. Curran has lived a lifetime with this subject. Added to the fascination of his detailed analysis, his memory recreates much of an art, falling rapidly to beetle and bulldozer." Scarce book. Will require extra postage. Seller Inventory # 17091
Bibliographic Details
Title: Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the ...
Publisher: London: Alec Tiranti
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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Sillan Books is a modest internet postal book business run by the owner
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