Author: THOMAS W. CAVE
Title: Mural or Monumental Decoration; Its Aims and Methods, Comprising Fresco,water-glass, Encaustic, Mosaic, Oil Painting with an Appendix
Description: London, Winsor and Newton. 1869, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. assumed first edition (1869), undated, cloth boards rubbed to edges, joints ruubbed and splitting, hinges weak and detaching WILL NEED RECASING althought the original boards and backstrip will be re-usable, some light foxing to prelims, viii 315pp +32pp adverts for Winsor and Newton artists supplies with many engraved illustrations, the book is a surveyt of the techniques used in mural and monumental work, as well as a gazetter of recorded examples ( mainly Renaissance Italian ) rare title. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Art Architecture Fine Art Technique Art History Mosaic Mural Fresco Victorian Art Advertising


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