Popular Weaving and Embroidery in Spain… With One Hundred and Seventy-Five Illustrations Made Expressly for and by The Author.

Popular Weaving and Embroidery in Spain… With One Hundred and Seventy-Five Illustrations Made Expressly for and by The Author.

Author: Stapley, Mildred (1875-1941)

4to.(7" x 9.75")1924. Stapley, Mildred. New-York. Wilkiam Helburn. Full brown cloth with gilt author/title towards head of upper board, rear blank. Spine with gilt author/title towards head, gilt publisher at foot. Printed endpapers, bookplate of prior owner to front pastedown. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, head and foot of spine chipped with small loss, covers scuffed and rubbed. Illustrated with 118 plates, in-text illustrations, amounting to 175 Illustrations. Head of spine with tears to the joints.

From Wiki: Mildred Stapley Byne (1875-1941) was an American art historian who specialized in Spanish art and architecture. With her husband Arthur Byne (1883-1935), whom she married in 1910, she wrote many of the first academic works in English on the architecture and ironwork of Spanish colonial North America. Byne's first noted essay on "The Great Queen Isabel" was published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in June 1912. Her most famous book is Christopher Columbus, a popular biography that brought new research done in Spanish to English-speaking audiences. Seventeen editions have been published between 1915 and 2012. Both members of the couple were corresponding members of the Hispanic Society of America,and served as curators of architecture and applied arts from 1916 to 1921. In 1921, the Bynes ended their relationship with the HSA and settled permanently in Madrid. Through their friend Julia Morgan, the couple helped American collector William Randolph Hearst acquire Spanish art and decorative items. After 1921, the Bynes established themselves as dealers. They also served as historical consultants for Spanish colonial and colonial-style houses in California. Their work was widely praised, and one reviewer wrote of one of their books: "A book like this is a stimulant to the creative faculty." In 1931, couple bought a home in Madrid built in 1885 by Don Manuel Caldero, the Marqués de Salamanca. It was purchased by the United States government in 1944 and now serves as an American diplomatic building. In 2006, the building was added to the Register of Culturally Significant Property.

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