Wien: K.K. Österreichisches Handels-Museum, 1895.
Price: $2,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Portfolio. Translated by Edmund H. Dring. Two title and text pages (in German and English), and 50 black and white plates. Half cloth portfolio with illustrated title and one cloth tie. Ex-library copy with spine letters, bookplate, perforated stamp on the title pages, and small ink stamp on the plates. Light soiling to the portfolio, light toning to the English title page, very good. An important survey of Oriental metal works by von Scala, a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and Director of the Museum of Art and Industry, (now the Museum of Applied Arts), in Austria. Complete set of fine collotype plates, scarce in the trade.
Item #371008
