356 pp. Translated by Charles C. Perkins. Illustrated with sixty plates (five of them chromolithographs and the remainder color printed or lithographs), and numerous illustrations. (4to) 27x19 cm (10½x7½”), embossed brown cloth with gilt, a.e.g. With handsome Prang colored lithographs of ancient and Renaissance home interiors. "By the time Louis Prang issued this...an increasingly comfortable American audience could take an interest in the history of luxury housing. Chromolithographs were juxtaposed as highlights of color in a text which also employed albertypes, steel cuts, and woodcuts" - Stamped with a National Character .
356 pp. Translated by Charles C. Perkins. Illustrated with sixty plates (five of them chromolithographs and the remainder color printed or lithographs), and numerous illustrations. (4to) 27x19 cm (10½x7½”), embossed brown cloth with gilt, a.e.g. With handsome Prang colored lithographs of ancient and Renaissance home interiors. "By the time Louis Prang issued this...an increasingly comfortable American audience could take an interest in the history of luxury housing. Chromolithographs were juxtaposed as highlights of color in a text which also employed albertypes, steel cuts, and woodcuts" - Stamped with a National Character .
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