Nouvelle Fabrication Française. “Patria” Papiers de Fantaisie
[Paris]: Maunoury & Cie, 1920. 22.5 x 28 cm. 148 paper specimens of 45 designs, each presented in different color combinations. Original half grey cloth, covers using one of Dresá’s designs (modèle no. 35), two metal rivets (spine stained). Item #410651
Title, price list, divisional text leaves of the designs (modèles) arranged by designer: (1) Guy Arnoux, 3 specimens. (2) E. de Lierres, 3. (3) Arnoux, 3. (4) Arnoux, 2. (5) René Kieffer, 4. (7) Arnoux, 3. (8) Drésa [i.e. Jules André Saglio, born Jacques Drésa], 7. (9) de Lierres, 4. (10) Arnoux, 2. (11) Unnamed artist, 1. (13) Unnamed, 4. (14) Unnamed, 4. (15) de Lierres, 2. (16) Unnamed, 4. (17) Unnamed, 4. (18) Unnamed, 4. (19) Drésa, 4. (20) Arnoux, 6. (21) Unnamed, 4. (22) A. Domin, 3. (23) Arnoux, 1. (25) Arnoux, 2. (27) Unnamed, 2. (28) Unnamed, 4. (29) Unnamed, 2. (30) Arnoux, 2. (31) Unnamed, 2. (33) Drésa, 4. (34) Drésa, 3. (35) Drésa, 4. (36) Drésa, 7. (37) Drésa, 3. (38) Drésa, 4. (39) Drésa, 3. (40) Georges Barbier, 2 [duplicate loosely inserted]. (41) Unnamed, 2. (42) Kieffer, 1. (43) Mlle Schroeder, 5. (44) Schroeder, 3. (45) Schroeder, 4. (46) Schroeder, 3. (47) Schroeder, 3. (48) Schroeder, 3. (49) Martin, 6. (50) Arnaux, 2.
Designs machine-printed on paper, ungrounded. Cooper Hewitt includes this in their Wallpaper department.
Scarce: WorldCat/OCLC records three copies (NY Historical Society, Harvard, Princeton).
Price: $4,000.00