Description: The Art of Polychromatic & Decorative Turning. A Practical Manual for the Professional and Amateur Turner. By George Ashdown Audsley, LL.D., Author of “The Ornamental Arts of Japan,” “The Practical Decorator,” Etc., and Berthold Audsley, Architect. Illustrated with Twenty-One Plates. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company Publishers. 1916. 109 pp + 21 plates. All plates intact - a complete work. 8.75 x 5.5”, 8vo. In fair condition. Red cloth boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt lettering on spine and front board moderately dulled, but still legible. Ink marginalia found at top edge of front end-page: “Ahangrandt. 6/3/18.” Same signature found on top edge of title page. Ink staining on frontispiece’s tissue guard from signature. Normal toning throughout text-block; mostly to edges of leaves. Bottom corner of text-block lightly bumped. Binding intact. Please see photos. George Ashdown Audsley (1838 – 1925) was an accomplished architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and pipe organ designer who excelled in many artistic fields but is perhaps best known today for having designed the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia. In 1875 Audsley collaborated with his friend James Lord Bowes, a wealthy Liverpool Wool Merchant and collector of Japanese art, to produce The Keramic Art of Japan. This was one of the first and most important books on Japanese art to be produced in the English language and, like many of Audsley's works, it continues to be a popular classic publication still in print. By 1884, the brothers apparently separated, with William emigrating to the United States and George relocating to a London suburb where he had built a house complete with a music room and a pipe organ he designed himself that was admired by Saint-Saëns and others. The move to London seems to have been occasioned by Audsley's success with the New West End Synagogue there (a masterpiece of Victorian architecture and furnishing), but further architectural commissions in the London area failed to materialize. While there, he appears to have been financially unsuccessful in establishing himself as a pipe-organ designer and author of artistic books. He emigrated to the United States, settling in the New York City area in around 1890. FORN-SHELF-0667-BB-2406-HK1687
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Author: George Ashdown Audsley & Berthold Audsley
Publisher: Small, Maynard and Company
Topic: Architecture
Subject: Art
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