Book Details
Title: Decorative Ironwork: 70 Plates in Full Colour
Author: Umberto Zimelli and Giovanni Vergerio (Translated by Anthony Sutton from the Italian original, 'Il ferro battuto')
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Paul Hamlyn
Year: 1969
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 159
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. There is some shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges. Injury to top of the spine of dust jacket as pictured. Minor scuffing.
The hardcover is intact with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. The embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean but are slightly yellowed/foxed.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean, with some yellowing or yellow marks.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"A brief glance at the illustrations of this book is enough to reveal the amazing virtuosity of the blacksmith's art, an art which has modestly flourished from the Middle Ages to the present day. In the Middle Ages, heavy wooden doors were reinforced and incidentally decorated with ironwork mounts, hinges and bolts. Later, ironwork began to be used in churches for screens across the choir and around chapels and tombs.
By the Renaissance, craftsmen were also producing splendid lamp-holders, fire-screens, gates and coffers. In the 18th-century France, the outstanding craftsman was Jean Lamour, smith to the court of King Stanislas at Nancy. In Germany, among the magnificent examples of Baroque ironwork, the gates and railings of the castle park at Wurzburg are supreme. Spain, having inherited the craft from Moorish invaders, has produced a wealth of objects from locks and coffers to the monumental screen in Granada Cathedral and the incredible constructions of Antonio Gaudi. The craftsman in iron has clearly never lacked a vigorous creative imagination, and whether your taste is for the lace-like delicacy of a Gothic Baroque staircase, this book will provide ample enjoyment and interest."
Book Details
Title: Decorative Ironwork: 70 Plates in Full Colour
Author: Umberto Zimelli and Giovanni Vergerio (Translated by Anthony Sutton from the Italian original, 'Il ferro battuto')
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Paul Hamlyn
Year: 1969
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 159
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. There is some shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges. Injury to top of the spine of dust jacket as pictured. Minor scuffing.
The hardcover is intact with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. The embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean but are slightly yellowed/foxed.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean, with some yellowing or yellow marks.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"A brief glance at the illustrations of this book is enough to reveal the amazing virtuosity of the blacksmith's art, an art which has modestly flourished from the Middle Ages to the present day. In the Middle Ages, heavy wooden doors were reinforced and incidentally decorated with ironwork mounts, hinges and bolts. Later, ironwork began to be used in churches for screens across the choir and around chapels and tombs.
By the Renaissance, craftsmen were also producing splendid lamp-holders, fire-screens, gates and coffers. In the 18th-century France, the outstanding craftsman was Jean Lamour, smith to the court of King Stanislas at Nancy. In Germany, among the magnificent examples of Baroque ironwork, the gates and railings of the castle park at Wurzburg are supreme. Spain, having inherited the craft from Moorish invaders, has produced a wealth of objects from locks and coffers to the monumental screen in Granada Cathedral and the incredible constructions of Antonio Gaudi. The craftsman in iron has clearly never lacked a vigorous creative imagination, and whether your taste is for the lace-like delicacy of a Gothic Baroque staircase, this book will provide ample enjoyment and interest."
