Main entry:

McClelland, Nancy, 1876-1959, author.

Title & Author:

Historic wall-papers : from their inception to the introduction of machinery / by Nancy McClelland, with an introduction by Henri Clouzot ; with 12 plates in colour, 245 illustrations in half-tone, and a chart of periods.

Publication:

Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] ; London [England] : J. B. Lippincott Company, 1924.
Philadelphia, U.S.A. : Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company at the Washington Square Press
©1924

Description:

xvi, 458 pages : illustrations (some color), folded table ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-449) and index.
Introduction / by Henri Clouzot -- The scope of this history -- Period I. The earliest block-printed papers in France -- Period I (continued). The first block-stamped papers in England -- Period II. Papers imitating tapestries and woven stuffs -- Period III. Paper imitating printed fabrics -- Chinese, Anglo-Chinese, and Franco-Chinese papers -- Period IV. Paper imitating painted panels French -- Period IV (continued). Paper imitating painted panels English -- Period V. The epoch of scenic papers -- Painted scenic papers, fireboards, borders, overdoors and screens -- Early American wall-papers -- Some famous scenic papers and their owners -- Translation from Dufour's booklet on the Captain Cook wall-paper -- Conspectus of biography of wall-paper designers, manufacturers, and dealers from 1500-1840 -- Wall-papers issued by some of the French fabricants of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Subject:

Wallpaper.
Papier peint.
wallpapers.

Added entries:

Clouzot, Henri, 1865-1941, writer of introduction.
J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher, printer.
Washington Square Press (Philadelphia, Pa.), manufacture place.
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Great Britain England London.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 124666
Call No.: ID:85-B21474
Status: Available