L'artisan Pratique, Revue Mensuelle De Modeles D'art Decoratif Magazine, 10 Issues 1921-35 [french]

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Each issue is stapled with brown paper covers with decorative motifs. Edges rubbed, corners folded, some small splits to edge of pages. No. 208 has a 14cm split to the spine fold and a 28cm cut in the back cover. This group consists of : no. 150, December 1921; 194, August 1925; 196, October 1925; 208, October 1926; 234, December 1928; 250, April 1930; 253, July 1930; 254, August 1930; 261, March 1931; 309, March 1935. Completeness: each issue originally included two large tissue sheets with full-size diagrams for featured projects. These are still present in numbers 150, 196, 208, 234, 250, 253, 261, 309; missing from 254, 194. Numbers 234, 250, 253, and 309 have double-page colour plates giving colour schemes for selected projects; the plate in no. 309 shows signs of use, with paint samples. The magazines are a treasure trove of decorative art projects, with detailed B&W drawings and explanations for work in repousse metal, wood carving, glass painting, stencilling, leatherwork

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