Pattern books, ornament printsThere are 42 items
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Libro nuovo da imparare a scrivere tutte sorte lettere antiche et moderne di tutte nationi, con nuove regole, misure, et essempi
Rome, Girolama Cartolari, 1543 (2 October)Second edition of Palatino’s enormously popular calligraphy book, noted for its examples of cursive chancery scripts, mercantile hands, and national hands, but including non-western scripts (Hebrew, Chaldean, Arabic, Greek, Egyptian, Syrian, Indian, Cyrillic, etc.), a rebus, and cipher alphabets, as well as “Lettera Mancina” (right-to-left handwriting, of the kind practised by Leonardo). Only four other copies of the edition can be located ● Bergamo, Biblioteca civica “Angelo Mai” ● Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum ● Rome, Biblioteca nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II ● Turin, Biblioteca Reale. The present copy was bound at Augsburg about 1560 in a style inspired by Italian models. On the upper cover, displayed within a double-ruled-lozenge, is a stamp (height 19 mm) of the civic insignia of Augsburg, the “Stadtpyr” or “Zirbelnuss” (pine cone) set on a column base. -
Designs for furnishing, including cupboards and sideboards, tables, chairs, beds, pedestals for busts, caryatid and terminal figures, doorways, and a chimneypiece, cartouches and fleurons, seventy-three etchings altogether
[Orléans? and Paris], c. 1545-1565An extraordinary album of etched furniture designs by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, containing most of his known prints of this type, together with one unrecorded print, gathered and bound circa 1580. Until recently the album reposed in the extensive library formed in the 17th and 18th centuries by the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, unknown and unrecorded. Its recovery brings vital evidence to the study of the states and issue dates of Androuet du Cerceau's prints for furniture. -
A suite of prints known as "Temples et Habitations fortifiées" or as the "Petits Temples"
[Orléans], c. 1547-1548An engraved architectural pattern book presenting eighteen different projects for temples, tombs, churches, and residences for the country and city, in a series of fifty plans, elevations, and sections. It is among the earliest pattern books featuring designs for domestic architecture to be printed anywhere in Europe and also one of the first publications of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, a pioneer in the production of the architectural model book. Five complete copies are preserved in Parisian libraries and two incomplete copies elsewhere. Our copy retains its original binding and is in quite exceptional state of preservation. -
Quinque et viginti exempla arcuum
Orléans, [published by the author], 1549This series of engravings of Roman triumphal arches composed in the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Orders, and selon l'ordre salomonique, is among the earliest dated publications of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, a pioneer in the production of the architectural model book. A complete set comprises a title and twenty-five plates. Six plates are missing from our group: the title, Larc dAncone, Larc de Benevente, Larc de Veronne par Vitruve larchitecteur, Larc de Suse, and Arc selon lordre ionique. The nine antique arches (the arches of Titus, of Septimius Severus, and of Constantine, in Rome; and the arches of Ancona, Verona, Benevento, Pola, Susa, and Ravenna) are mostly plagiarised from illustrations in Serlio's Terzo Libro and Quarto Libro, with Androuet du Cerceau integrating details and inscriptions that Serlio described separately. Androuet's sources for the other designs have yet to be identified. -
Arte subtilissima, por la qual se enseña a escrevir perfectamente, hecho y experimentado, y agora; de nuevo añadido
Saragossa, Pedro Bernúz, 1550 (23 July)The Arte subtilissima is the revised second edition of the first calligraphy and handwriting manual published in Spain. The woodblocks of the first edition (1548) are re-employed, except for three; twenty-four “Tablas mas estudiadas y mas esmeradas que antes” are added, and these enlarge the book by two gatherings (sixteen leaves). One of the new blocks is dated 1547, seven are dated 1550, and sixteen are undated. J.P.R. Lyell’s complaint that Iciar’s writing books were “thumbed out of existence” is validated by modern bibliographical tools: ten copies of the 1548 first edition, some just fragments, are recorded in public collections worldwide. Our 1550 second edition is less rare, but equally difficult to find complete and in good condition: twelve copies are recorded public collections, of which at least four are incomplete. -
De architectura Jacobi Androuetii Du Cerceau, opus
Paris, Benoît Prévost, 1559This is the first of three extensive books on house-building published by Androuet du Cerceau. It was issued by the same printer in the same year under the title Livre d’Architecture… contenant les plans et desseings de cinquante bastiments tous différens. As often, it is found here with the author’s Second Livre d’Architecture, in which designs for chimneys, window surrounds, doors, fountains, wells, garden pavilions, and funerary monuments, are provided. The once-fine binding of our copy is characteristic French work of about 1570 decorated in gilt with centre- and corner-pieces, and a complex monogram on both covers, which we dismember into the letters A B C E M N O R S T. It could be standing either for a motto or for a name.
Bound with Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques. Le second livre d’architecture, par Iacques Androuet du Cerceau. Contenant plusieurs & diverses ordonnances de Cheminees, Lucarnes, Portes, Fonteines, Puis & Pavillons, pour enrichir tant le dedans que le dehors de tous edifices. Avec les desseins de dix Sepultures toutes differentes. Paris, André Wechel, 1561
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Architectura, oder Bauung der Antiquen auss dem Vitruuius, woellches sein funff Collummen orden, daer auss mann alle Landts gebreuch vonn Bauuen zu accommodieren
Antwerp, Gérard de Jode, 1581Four “column books”, a type of pattern book intended for the man of practice – building masters, stonemasons, sculptors, cabinet makers, stained glass artists, painters of architectural backgrounds, and all “ingenious lovers of architecture”, reducing Vitruvius’s architectural theory to a more narrow description of column orders, and showing those craftsmen interested the new foreign (Italian) fashion how to choose the right columnar elements and combine them appropriately on real buildings or in decoration. Their author, the productive and multi-talented artist Jan Vredeman de Vries, has only lately been recognised as one of the most successful disseminators in countries north of the Alps of the ideas and forms of the Italian Renaissance, as the “chief motor behind the spread of the so-called Antwerp Mannerist architecture” (Krista de Jonghe), whose “paper architecture” had an impact on a variety of media not just in Europe but also in the New World.
Bound with Architectura 3e stuck. De oorden tuschana, in tvveen ghedeylt in XII. Stucken. Antwerp, Widow of Hieronymus Cock [Volcxken Diericx], 1578
Bound with Das ander Buech, Gemacht auff die zvvay Colonnen, Corinthia und Composita sampt jren podien, basen, cornicen, capitellen, architraben, phrisen und coronamenten. Antwerp, [Widow of Hieronymus Cock (Volcxken Diericx)], 1581
Bound with [Das Erst Buch, Gemacht Auff de Zvvey Colommen Dorica und Ionica, sampt iren podien, bases, cornicen, capitelen, architraben, phrisen und coronamenten]. [Antwerp, Widow of Hieronymus Cock (Volcxken Diericx), 1581] -
De deis gentium imagines aliquot iconicae aeneis tabulis per Philipp. Galleum exaratae; et variis distichis ab Hug. Favolio illustratae
Antwerp, [Philips Galle], 1581A model book intended for the instruction of young artists and artisans, consisting of twenty-nine engravings of ancient gods, each depicted in the nude, in diverse and complicated postures, as if to instruct the viewer on the anatomy of the body; a few lines of Latin verse by the Flemish humanist-physician Hugo Favolius (1523-1585) explicate each image. Its widespread use by craftsmen is attested by copies carved in wooden panels of four pieces of contemporary French furniture. -
A remarkable volume containing eight books of ornament and seven suites of prints, published at Amsterdam, Antwerp, Augsburg, Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Prague, and Strasbourg, between circa 1562 and 1605, together with three series of drawings executed by a single hand on related papers manufactured at Bern in Switzerland between 1601 and 1608. The paper used by the binder for the paste-downs also was made at Bern, circa 1601-1608, and it may be inferred that the volume was assembled and bound there, probably about 1605
[Bern], c. 1562-1605This highly interesting and well-preserved volume was compiled at Bern about 1605 to provide an architect or artisan with a convenient repertory of exempla for the ornamentation of architecture, sculpture, and metalwork. In it the owner assembled contemporary printed ornament and safe-guarded some drawings – probably his own – to ensure they were easily accessible whenever need for them arose.
At the time our volume was assembled, Daniel Heintz the Younger (1574-1633) was establishing himself as the pre-eminent architect of Bern. Heintz gave his library to his nephew, the architect, painter, and cartographer Joseph Plepp, and some books eventually passed into the Burgerbibliothek Bern. Mostly architectural treatises and compendia of ornament, those “Heintz-Plepp” volumes contain no marks of ownership, and are identifiable only through entries in the Library’s “Donationenbuch”. Several books are in Bernese bindings and for one (a Sammelband of models of Schweifwerk ornament) the binder employed a paper stock found in our volume. There is additional, circumstantial evidence that suggests Daniel II Heintz was the compiler-owner of our volume.
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Livre d’architecture contenant plusieurs portiques de differentes inventions, sur les cinq ordres de colomnes
Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1631First issue of a series of forty designs for monumental doorways and entrances in a Mannerist style, by a Florentine who had been invited to the French court about 1598 to create grottoes and fountains in the grounds of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and later in Marie de Médicis’ garden of the Luxembourg. Of all the Orders, Alessandro Francini found the massive Doric most suited to these kinds of monuments, and he uses its form and proportions in nineteen designs, while six designs develop the Tuscan column, six the Ionic, five the Corinthian, and three feature the Composite Order. -
Scvdiero di varii disegni dArme e targhe fatto a benefitio publico per il scvltori pittori e intagl.ri inuentate dal cav.re Bernard.no Radi
Florence, 1636A rare suite of etched designs of escutcheons and cartouches destined for coats of arms, intended to provide sculptors, painters, and engravers, with models and ideas, dedicated to Cardinal Gian Carlo de' Medici, second son of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany. Inserted at the end of the volume by a recent owner are two drawings associated with a series of twenty-four etchings of decorative cartouches and ornaments, designed and probably also etched by Agostino Mitelli, and published at Bologna by Agostino Parisini with a dedication to Francesco Maria Zambeccari, in 1636. -
Ornemens Inuentez par J. Berain Et se vendant Chez Monsieur Thuret Aux Galleries du Louvre Avec Priuilege du Roy
Paris, Jacques Thuret, c. 1711A collection of engraved designs for artists and craftsmen, showing clocks, candlesticks, commodes, consoles, fireplaces, guéridons, marquetry bureaux, torchères, walls and ceilings, tapestries, and much other furniture, objects and interior decoration, also garden parterres and temporary architecture, all designed by Jean Bérain, appointed court designer for theatre and festivals in 1674 and for gardens in 1677, who after Le Brun’s death in 1690 was chief designer of all royal decorations, with a residence in the Louvre. More than a dozen printmakers collaborated in reproducing Bérain’s designs. -
Oeuvre de Juste Aurele Meissonnier Peintre Sculpteur Architecte &c. Dessinateur de la chambre et Cabinet du Roy. Premiere partie [no more published]. Executé sous la conduitte de l’auteur
Paris, Gabriel Huquier, c. 1748A superb copy of Meissonnier's Oeuvre, a collection of 118 engraved designs for silverware, interior decoration and furniture, memorial sculpture, illusionistic ceiling paintings, and architectural projects, including those for festivals. It is the ‘Bible of the Rococo’ style it represents and an immensely important historical document since few of Meissonnier's drawings for it have survived. -
Ornamenti Diversi Inventati Disegnati ed eseguiti Da Giocondo Albertolli Professore d’Ornati nella Reale Accademia di Belle Arti in Milano Incisi da Giacomo Mercoli Luganese Si vendono dallo stesso Albertolli in Milano
Milan, Giocondo Albertolli, [1782]-1787-1796 (but probably issued c. 1796)A series of influential works documenting both interior decoration completed by Giocondo Albertolli and ornament he had observed on his travels around Italy. One of the most important taste-makers of his day, Albertolli was the professor of drawing and ornament in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he taught his own brand of neoclassicism to an entire generation, from the founding of the academy in 1776 until 1812. These three works – together with a Corso elementare di ornamenti architettonici, a suite of twenty-eight plates published in 1805 – became the “principale strumento didattico a disposizione degli allievi della scuola d’ornato” (Giuseppe Beretti), and further spread Albertolli’s ideas in Italy and abroad.Bound with Albertolli, Giocondo. Alcune decorazioni di nobili sale ed altri ornamenti di Giocondo Albertolli Professore nella Reale Accademia delle Belle Arti in Milano Incisi da Giacomo Mercoli e da Andrea de Barnardis MDCCLXXXVII.
Bound with Albertolli, Giocondo. Miscellanea per i giovani studiosi del disegno pubblicata da Giocondo Albertolli Professore Nella Reale Accademia delle Belle Arti in Milano L’Anno MDCCXCVI. Parte terza. Si ritrova presso allo stesso Albertolli in Milano. -
Les maîtres ornemanistes: dessinateurs, peintres, architectes, sculpteurs et graveurs. Écoles française, Italienne, Allemande et des Pays-Bas
Paris, E. Plon, 1880-1881Two volumes (31 cm), I: xvi, 560 pp., text illustrations. II (Atlas): (6) pp., 180 plates. Uniform contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. - The first volume is arranged by designer under century and school; the second is composed entirely of plates. In spite of its obvious defects, largely because it was the first in the field, Guilmard is still the canonical book on the subject. Arntzen & Rainwater P-68; Chamberlin 1635. ¶ Bindings expertly repaired; an excellent, unmarked set. -
Catalogue de livres rares et précieux provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. Hippolyte Destailleur, Architecte du Gouvernement (catalogue of a portion of the library of Hippolyte Destailleur, sold in Hôtel Drouot, Paris, by commissaire-priseur Maurice Delestre, 13-25 April 1891) § Catalogue de livres et estampes relatifs aux Beaux-arts (Architecture, Peinture, Gravure, Ornementation, etc.) provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. Hippolyte Destailleur, Architecte du Gouvernement (catalogue of a portion of the library of Hippolyte Destailleur, sold in Hôtel Drouot, Paris, by commissaire-priseur Maurice Delestre, 20-31 May 1895) § Catalogue de dessins et tableaux provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. Hippolyte Destailleur, Architecte du Gouvernement. Dessins d'architecture et de décoration. Vues de Paris et des environs. Dessins de différents genres (catalogue for an auction conducted by Maurice Delestre and Librairie Damascène Morgand, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-23 May 1896)
Paris, Librairie Damascène Morgand, 1891-1896Three volumes (29 cm), I (13-25 April 1891): (4) xv (1), 448 pp. 2004 lots. II (20-31 May 1895): xxviii, 420 pp., [1] plate (portrait), text illustrations. 1753 lots. II (19-23 May 1896): viii, 150 pp., illustrations. Includes a Supplément (one leaf, describing lot 805 bis). Two volumes uniformly bound in contemporary red cloth, black skiver lettering-pieces; one volume bound in contemporary half-morocco (original wrappers retained in each volume). - Three (of eight?) auction sale catalogues dispersing the “second” library assembled by the architect Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur (1822-1893); his first library had been sold in 1879, becoming the foundation for the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin (Cédric Destailleur, “Hippolyte Destailleur: architecte-collectionneur” in L’artiste collectionneur de dessin: De Giorgio Vasari à aujourd’hui, edited by Catherine Monbeig-Goguel, Paris 2006, pp.147-162). Offered here are the catalogues of Destailleur’s most valuable books (sold 13-25 April 1891, realising 467,327 Fr.), his collection of ornament books and prints (sold 20-31 May 1895, realising 333,270 Fr.), and some of his drawings (sold 19-23 May 1896, realising 267,266 Fr.). Blogie II, 199 (April 1891); Blogie II, 217 (May 1895). ¶ Bindings fatigued. Two entries clipped from one leaf (1891 sale, pp.141-142), neatly replaced with typescript facsimiles. -
Catalogue des estampes d'ornement faisant partie des collections de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique
Brussels, Henri Lamertin, 1907(25.5 cm), xi (1), 491 pp., with 8 plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Wrappers chipped, lightly worn; otherwise a good, unmarked copy. -
Catalogue d’une très importante collection de livres d’architecture [other title:] Recueils d’ornements propres à la décoration des édifices et aux arts industriels par les maîtres ornemanistes français et étrangers des XVIe, XVIIe, et XVIIIe siècles; livres illustrés du XVe au XVIIIe siècle; estampes, dessins (catalogue of a portion of the collection of Edmond Foulc, sold by Albert Besombes with the expertise of André Desvouges, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3-6 June 1914)
Paris, Librairie Albert Besombes, 1914(25 cm), viii, 190 pp., 20 plates. Lots 1-614 (books), 1-68 (prints and drawings). “Liste des prix d’adjudication” bound in. Morocco-backed boards, a collector’s binding (original wrappers bound in). - This remarkable collection had been sold privately in 1911 to J.P. Morgan (1837-1913), for 750,000 FF; upon its arrival in New York, however, it was judged by his son, John Pierpont “Jack” Morgan, Jr., and by his librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, to be unsatisfactory. The collection was returned to Paris to be sold as the Foulc collection, not in any way as part of Morgan’s library. The prices realised were exceptional, and mark the apogee for books of ornament: ever since, this type of book has languished on the market. The sculpture and other works of art collected by Foulc – some 200 objects, “the most outstanding group of works of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance anywhere available today” – was bought en bloc for more than one million dollars by the Pennsylvania (now Philadelphia) Museum of Art (quotation from Fiske Kimball, “The Edmond Foulc Collection” in Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum, volume 25, February 1930, pp.4-11). ¶ Superb copy. -
Illustrierter Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung des K.K. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie : Erwerbungen seit dem Jahre 1871 § Erwerbungen seit 1889
Vienna, Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1919Two volumes bound as one (25 cm), I (1889): xvi, 271 pp., text illustrations. II (1919): (4) xiv, (2) 237 (1) pp., text illustrations. Publisher’s printed cloth boards. - Publisher’s reissue of original sheets of the catalogue of additions to the collection 1871-1889 together with the catalogue of additions 1889-1919. ¶ Cloth across the back torn, small losses, however the binding remains sound. -
Ornamentale Vorlage-Blätter des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts
Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann Verlag, 1925-1926Three volumes (32 cm), I (Textband, 1926): x (4), 182 pp. II (Teil I, 1926): (2) pp., plates 1-54, 54A, 54B, 55-90, 92-146, 148-205, 205A, 206-224. III (Teil 2, 1925): (2) pp., plates 224A, 224B, 225-245, 247-252, 254-262, 262A, 263-343, 343A, 344-356, 358A, 358B, 359-402, 404-418, 420-430, 432-450 (altogether, more than 1500 collotype illustrations). Uniform publisher’s cloth bindings. - A valuable guide for the collector of ornament prints, and a useful aid for dating an object decorated with a particular ornament. A revised edition by Gerhart Egger published in 1981 “tampers” with Berliner’s descriptions, reprints only part of his introduction, and omits completely his historical essay (see the critical review of it by Peter Fuhring, in Print Quarterly, volume 4, 1987, pp.190-194). A notice printed in the Textband (title-page, verso) states: “Die Tafeln 54A und B, 205A und B, 262A, 343A, 358A und B ersetzen die entfallenen Nrn. 91, 147, 246, 253, 357, 358, 403, 419, 431”; in fact, no pl. 205B was issued. Arntzen & Rainwater P-66; Chamberlin 1623; Lucas p.101. ¶ Exlibris of Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart (publisher of the “Taschenbibliographie”); William Salloch (1906-1990), his sale by Christie’s South Kensington, Printed books: the Salloch collection: the property of the late William and Marianne Salloch, London, 31 October-1 November 1991, lot 349 (£150 hammer). Attractive copy despite light stains and other marks on bindings.
