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Hard cover, 4to, in modern binding in red cloth, gilt with titles to the spine, original chromolithographed paper wraps bound in, 379pp. Text in French. Illustrated by the author 12 full page plates. Additional 140 vignettes within text. Printer C. Motteroz. **CONDITION: The binding is Fine. Contents are about Very Good Plus, with one chip to bottom right of orig. color printed wraps, and minor age toning or spot of soiling throughout. CONTENTS: Six chapters discuss the technical processes of various art reproduction methodologies of the late nineteenth century: gravure, lithography, and chromolithography among them. A biographical note about the Author and Artist Jules Adeline, taken from the "Dictionnaire de Biographie Française" (Paris: 1933,) is also bound in.**JULES ADELINE,( born April 28, 1845 in Rouen; died August 24, 1909,) was a very prominent French designer, engraver, preservationist and art historian. He was author of the popular architecture dictionary, "Lexique des Termes d'Art, (Paris, A. Quantain, 1884). Translated into Spanish and English, it was hailed as the "most important lexicographic work of art history published in the 19th century."(worldcat). The front matter to our volume lists this, as well as 18 additional art historical tiles by him, including "le Chat d'apres les Japonais" (Rouen: Imprimerie Cagniard,1893), which alludes to the author's facination with, and large collection of, Japanese woodblock prints, introducing the "japanisme" style into the avante guarde arts of the period. Adeline's also created approximately 9000 drawings, engravings and watercolors, mainly of the old town of Rouen. (Bibliothèque Municipale Dijon) He had a large book collection, many of which he decorated with his own sketches and paintings (DBF, as above). [Please see our related item for sale, "The Bouddha," our no. 9304 for an example of this work.] PROVENANCE: Ex libris Gavin D.R. Bridson, noted English author, book collector and bibliographer, signed, and with his bookplate. Bridson (1936-2008) was a librarian, author of works on British and American illustration, botanical illustration, and bibliographer of works on natural history who worked in both the UK and the United States.
Ref: ART 9332
$225.00