White paper, bound in papercovered boards, with a gold-tooled leather spine and marbelized end papers. Illustrations are lithograph, brush and watercolor.
Dimensions:
27.5 x 21.8 cm (10 13/16 x 8 9/16 in. ) Cover size.
Type:
toys & games
Bound print
Object Name:
Bound print
Manufactured in:
Paris, France
Date:
1832
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
An illustrated book intended as a how-to manual for women, young people, and young men describes various craft hobbies and handiwork pastimes that can usefully occupy leisure hours or rainy days at home. It is a "petite" encyclopedia of processes for decorative lettering, painting on porcelain, needlework techniques, macrame, making artificial flowers of paper or silk, and devising decorative works with shells, straw or horsehair. 224 pages of text (two pages missing), 72 plates, lithographed, engraved, chiefly hand-colored. Deep blue-voilet covers, red-violet leather spine, gold-tooled title: "Album / des Arts utiles / et amusants"
