La Décoration et le Mobilier à l’époque romantique et sous le le Second Empire, by Albert Keim, Editions Nilsson, 1929

La Décoration et le Mobilier à l’époque romantique et sous le le Second Empire, by Albert Keim. Preface by Léon Bérard. Paris: Editions Nilsson, c.1929 (folio in 4 tomes).

A handsome portfolio of design reference plates and scholarly text on French furniture and interior decoration from the Restoration through Romantic and Second Empire periods. Includes four volumes ("books" or tomes), each with ~10 fine lithographic or printed plates of furniture, decorative motifs, and room ornament. A valuable reference for designers, scholars, and collectors of 19th-century French decorative arts.

Published by Editions Nilsson, Paris. Undated, but believed to be 1929. Presumed first edition.

A good large, folio-size hard cover outer folio containing loose leaf text and plates. Cover in original Publisher's printed yellow cloth and yellow cloth spine over boards. Boards with some soiling and with some scuffing and wear. Around 4cm of spine cloth beginning to crack at outer joint near tail of spine. With original cloth ties to 2 sides, as called for. 

Inside the text sections printed on double leaf sheets, and the plates are single sheet. Some mild age-toning throughout with a little darkening to extremities.

Text in French.

All text is present as called for, with the 4 sections having 4 plates missing as listed below...

Tome I: Missing Plates 7 & 8;

Tome II: Missing Plate 1;

Tome III: All Plates present;

Tome IV: Missing Plate 3.

Dimensions: Approximately 400mm high x 300mm wide x 25mm deep.

Approximate weight: 1.8kg (unpacked).