Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum and 15 other pamphlets
New York: Cooper Union, 1928-1951. Mostly first editions. Hardcover (buckram, spine gilt-stamped). Variously paged and illustrated (chiefly text). From the library of E. Maurice Bloch, with his bookplate. Typed contents page glued in. The museum is now the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Very good. Item #30336
Contents: "Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration" by Elizabeth Bisland (1916 reprint of 1896 original); "The Making of a Modern Museum" by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt (1919); "Baked Clay in the Service of Man" (laid in loosely, 1938); "Wall-Paper Design and Production" (1939); "Italian Drawings for Jewelry 1700-1875" (1940); "Shells and Decoration" (1940); "With Hammer and Tongs: Malleable Metals in Diverse Designs" (1941); "Stitches in Time...Embroideries and Needlework Techniques" (1947); 2500 [degrees] F.: The Art and Technique of Modern Glass" (1948), "Modern Toys" (1948); "Nine Lives: The Cat in History and Art" (black suede covers, 1949); "Small Wonders; Puppets and Marionettes" (1949); "All That Glisters: Thirty Centuries of Golden Deception" (die-cut cover in nice condition, 1950); "Leather in the Decorative Arts" (1951); "Alter Ego: Masks, Their Art and Use" (1951), and "Laquer; Oriental and Western, Ancient and Modern" (1951).
Price: $80.00