La tapisserie gothique. Préface de Salomon Reinach [...].

Folio: [6]-4-10-[1]-[1 bl.] pp.; 100 pl.

Loose under blue publ. cloth in Solander case with cloth ties, gilt-titled.

Impressive publication on French medieval tapestry which contains 16 explanatory pages and 100 plates in colour, mounted on strong Bristol cardboard. According to the Disclaimer, the work was originally intended to have 200 pl., but the unforeseen death of the author interrupted the publication and each copy has to be considered complete with 100 pl. The gap that exist in the numbering of the plates should have been filled by the last four deliveries, but they were never published. The antiquarian Demotte (1877-1923) played an important role in the diffusion and knowledge of medieval art in the United States in the years immediately after the WWI by selling objects to great collectors, such as the Rockefellers, and to museums.
Ref. Sudoc.fr. - Vivet-Peclet, Christine - L’antiquaire Georges Joseph Demotte, le Louvre et les musées américains, Les Cahiers de l’École du Louvre, 11 (2017) (http://journals.openedition.org/cel/705). - Not in Opac KBR, BnF.