"The present catalogue was translated and typed as a manuscript only for interior circulation."

Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen [Danske kunstindustrimuseum]

[DECORATIVE PAPERS]. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Block-Printed Papers from the 18th and early 19th centuries (typescript)

Copenhagen: Museum of Decorative Arts, 1958. First Edition. 4to. Typescript. Unpaginated (but 33 ff.) typed on rectos only, with a title-page, Introductory Notes (1 f.), list of Collections from which the exhibition was assembled and respective abbreviations used in the Catalogue (1 f.), plus 30 ff. descriptions of 260 Block-Printed Papers, each with date, name of the book in which the papers are found, location of the book, and in many instances the shelf-mark of the book. The catalogue is perfect-bound in boards; title typed onto a small brown slip of paper and pasted onto front cover (3 ff. loose). Pencil accession number of B.H. Breslauer on front cover, and the lot number of the sale of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana in pen on the lower cover. Very good. Item #3674

"The present catalogue was translated and typed as a manuscript only for interior circulation."

This very scarce typescript catalogue is the only record of a remarkable exhibition of Block-Printed Papers held in Copenhagen at the Museum of Decorative Arts, being one of the most extensive of its kind hitherto. The catalogue was issued made by and for the Museum only. There was issued a box of 260 small (4" x 3.5") photographs of the block-papers exhibited, of which we can locate only 6 examples: Harvard, Cooper Hewitt (lacks catalogue), Chowan Univ. (lacks catalogue?), V&A Museum (lacks catalogue?), Designmuseum Danmark. Biblioteket (lacks catalogue?). The Koninklijke Bibliotheek has a copy of the typescript catalogue, but not the box of photographs.

Price: $250.00