The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments.

MCCLELLAND, Nancy.

$475.00

Item Number: 132062

Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1926.

First edition of Nancy McClelland’s authoritative work on interior design. Octavo, original decorated cloth, frontispiece in color with tissue guard present, eight other illustrations in color and 206 in doubletone. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice example, uncommon in the original dust jacket.

One of the earliest American female decorators of the 20th century, Nancy Vincent McClelland was one of the foremost advocates for the professionalization of interior design. An expert on wallpaper, Scottish furniture design, and both European and American art and antiquities, McClelland gained international renown as an interior decorator, wallpaper designer, and collector of antique furniture. The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments contains chapters on the historic development of decorated walls, plaster walls, frescoed and painted walls, tiles as wall decoration, wood-paneling, and the openings of a room and their composition.