Ewald, Ernst - Farbige Dekorationenherausgegeben von Ernst Ewald Professor und Director der Königl. Kunstschule und der Unterrichts -Anstalt am Königl.Kunstgewerbe -Museum zu Berlin. Zweiter band. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth Architektur - Buchhandlung, 1896.
Hardcover, half leather, rubbed gilt titling on spine, 15 p., 80 tables in chromolithography, including 25 double, German, format: 48 x 32.5 cm. Preserved tissue-guarded dividers at double plates. Outdated old library stamp on title page.
Good condition, binding rubbed at edges, scratched. Spine rubbed but whole, leather in good condition. Plates 38-39 slightly torn at bottom, outside of border of artwork, p.45-46 cracked in middle in lower half, soiled on back, p.74-75 has thick line drawn in ink in margin.
Rare!
Exceptionally beautiful boards done in chromolithography with gilt depict ornaments and wall and ceiling decorations in the palaces of Italy, France (Fontainebleau) and Germany.
