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192538689Bamberg: Keramos-Verlag A.G. 1925. Second edition i.e. year. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers; 82pp; illus. Old tape reinforcement to spine; covers soiled; contents complete and fresh about Very Good. Scarce annual of the German and Bavarian pottery industries. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates. Rare; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg only in OCLC. The annual was issued from 1924 to 1928. Keramos-Verlag A.G. unknown
192428786New York: E. Weyhe 1924. First American edition First State with the printing accomplished in Germany. Colour printing by Dr. Selle and Co. Berlin. Letterpress by Otto v. Holten. With 122 very fine full-page colour plates both tipped on and by direct transfer reproducing over 2000 decorative motives from the arts of Asia Primitive Europe North Central and South America Africa Oceania and from the peasant arts of Europe. Paintings by Bollacher Tilke Dengler Erigh and Alberts Berlin Hamburg Stuttgart Potsdam. Photography by Wasmuth. Folio very attractively bound in polished black cloth over marbled paper covered boards the spine with a black morocco label gilt lettered and ruled. ix iii 35 pages 122 colored plates. A fine copy the binding the text-block paper and colourplates all in excellent condition just a touch of age to the edges. FIRST EDITION FIRST STATE AND A VERY WELL PRESERVED COPY OF WEYHE'S QUITE EXQUISITE "ORNAMENT" a highly important cross-cultural survey of the variety of ornamental motifs and styles artist have employed throughout the centuries on all types of applied arts; pottery textiles metal arts beadwork baskets etc. This American issue was printed in Germany from the original plates color printed by Selle & Co. but with the text translated into English.<br> Helmuth Theodor Bossert was an important German art historian philologist and archaeologist. He is best-known for his excavations of the Hittite fortress city at Karatepe Turkey and the discovery of bilingual inscriptions which enabled the translation of Hittite hieroglyphs. E. Weyhe hardcover
19111776Paterson New Jersey: National Silk Dyeing Company 1911 - 1915. Very Good overall. Five accordion-style books bound in brown cloth with snaps and gilt stamping containing nearly 780 samples of 800; each set of samples is approx. 5 cm long and contains five different hues of tied silk string. Each book 13 x 23 cm or approx. 23 x 75 cm opened in full. Splitting to edges of some bindings; some samples missing or bent. A rare collection of silk sample booklets from the period before and after the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. Included are: Autumn 1911 Autumn 1912 Spring 1914 Autumn 1914 and Spring 1915. OCLC locates only incomplete holdings at Yale Spring 1915 - Spring 1918 the Fashion Institute of Technology Spring 1911 Autumn 1916 Spring 1917 and Spring 1918 and the Brooklyn Museum Spring 1913. National Silk Dyeing Company hardcover
