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PRIGNOT (Eugene, French artist and architect, 1822-after 1875).

Mantels & side-walls. 

(New York): J. O'Kane, n.d. [c1880s]. First edition presumed. Tall portfolio containing letterpress title page and followed by 32 photo-litho plates printed in sepia, all lad loosely inside as published. Quarter cloth with paper covered boards (lower board original, upper board replicating highly decorative panel. Ex-libris 'fsdfsdfsd'. Size: 8vo (20cm x 12.5cm).

Very Good to Good condition. Printed decorative panel to upper board provided in excellent facsimile. The original lower panel with some wear, light scuffing and overall spotting with a couple of small stains. Minor discolouration to cloth spine. Light age-toning throughout, with some minor roughing at edges with occasional tiny chip, but on the whole a presentable example of this scarce book. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.

The present volume - not listed by Weinreb - contains designs for chimney pieces, mantels and side-walls, mostly in the Renaissance and Louis XIII-XIV-XV-XVI designs, but also containing one design in 'Style Grec' and another in 'Louis XVI Anglais (Genre Adam)'.

Hitchcock 957 (listing one copy only, at Connecticut College), and a further 4 copies listed on WorldCat/OCLC, all in North America.

[Weinreb, The Arts Applied (1975), lists only two French titles by Prignot, both published in Liege in the 1880s, one containing 'a large collection of furniture designs, mostly in French renaissance and Louis XIV-XV-XVI styles, but including examples of 'genre Gothique anglais', and the other title containing 'chairs and sofas in all styles from Louis XII to Louis XVI'. The designs were evidently 'a source of precedents for the reproduction furniture trade'. The same can be presumed for the present work.