Autograph MS travel diary, covering three extended tours on the Continent. Colebrande's first tour (p. 1-41) was in France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Orleans, Brittany, etc.); his second (p. 45-74) was also entirely in France; and on his third (p. 77-215) he travelled through France and into Italy (Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Padua, Venice, Milan) and back again across the Alps via Savoy, Geneva, etc., to Paris and Calais. At the end, various miscellaneous entries contain several receipts for varnishes and gildings and for making "stones of a paste;" several pages of advice for English travellers from France to Italy; and an account of the great Council of the Jews in Hungary, 12 Oct 1650, "by Samu. Brett who was there present."
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., With 18th century bookplate of Lord Walpole of Wolterton., and Written from from and back. Paginated [i-x], 1-[59] from back.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Italy--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Switzerland--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Brett, Samuel,--fl. 1655.
Subject (Topic):
Gilding., Jews--History., Jews--Hungary., Precious stones, Artificial., and Varnish and varnishing.
"Remarkable publishers's binding designed by Vally Wieselthier and Gudrun Baudisch, of paper boards molded in extremely high relief in figurative designs, colored in orange and black. Decorative endpapers printed in orange. A superb commemorative album published on the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the Wiener Werkstätte, documenting all facets of its production in the decorative arts: silver, textiles, lighting, procelain, glass and all manner of incidental objects d'art; particular emphasis is given naturally to the work of Josef Hoffmann (who is credited as the guiding genius behind the book), Dagogert Peche, Koloman Moser, Vally Wieselthier and Kitty Rix, among others. Some of Hoffmann's architectural projects are illustrated as well. Editorial/production credit for the volume is given to Mathilde Flogl. The extraordinary stylishness and originality of the mise-en-page qualify this as one of the landmarks of twentieth-century book design"--Ars Libri, Spec. Bulletin., Captions in English, French and German., Letterpress in German, English and French., 'Nach Josef Hoffmanns Anregung ... ' - p. [3], and Stamp: Karl Schweibe Wien VI. Bookseller's label: The Book Service Company ... New York City. From the collection of Peter Eisenman.
Publisher:
Krystall-Verlag,
Subject (Name):
Eisenman, Peter,--1932---Ownership, Schweibe, Karl--Stamp, Wiener Werkstätte, and Wieselthier, Vally, 1895-1945
Subject (Topic):
Decorative arts--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century