Abbildung Und Beschreibung Der Modernsten Former Fur Kunstler Und Handwerker de Matthaey, Carl - 1831

Ilmenau & Weimar : Bernard Friedrich Voight, 1831. Four fascicles - 1831, 1832, 1835, 1835 - in one volume. Complete. Plain calf spine and brown marbled paper boards, worn and somewhat scraped but sound. Internally fresh. Only edition of a rare Biedermeier pattern and ornament book for the use of craftsman and architects at the time that the style was emerging in a transitional period between Neoclassicism and Romanticism for the new urban classes of Germany, Austria and Scandanavia between 1815 and 1848 in literature, music, interior design and visual arts. Matthaey (1778-1848) was an architect and writer on architecture, author of a number of practical works. Twenty lithographed plates in each fascicle for a total of 80 with descriptive text of designs and motifs for gold and silversmiths, carpenters, woodworkers, furniture and fabric designers, porcelain factories, glass and iron workers and equipment and accessories for horses. Engelmann, Bibliotheca Mechanico-Technologica, 238. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art Supplement, pp. 414-415 lists only first two parts. Not in Berlin Katalog. Three holdings in German libraries and copies at the Getty and the British Library, according to WorldCat/OCLC. Calf Spine and Marbled Boards. Very Good. 8vo.