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[DECORATIVE ARTS]. A group of 4 portfolios of plates of French, English, and Italian decorative arts. Including: JANNEAU, Guillaume (1887-1981). Le Luminaire… Paris: Ch. Moreau, [129]. 4to (320 x 250 mm). With 4 pp. of text and 48 tinted plates of lamps. Housed in publisher’s portfolio of burgundy cloth backstrip over decorative boards, burgundy fore-edges, cloth ties (portfolio worn, soiled, torn, with inkstamp; text with previous owner’s inscription on half-title, text toned, occasionally thumbsoiled). [Together with:] English Wrought Ironwork. London: The Architectural Press, [ca. 1925]. 4to (315 x 255 mm). With 4 pp. of text and 20 plates. Publisher’s brown cloth portfolio (portfolio worn and soiled with occasional tears, text and plates toned, with occasional wear and a few tears). [Together with:] MARTINIE, Henri (1881-1963). La Ferronnerie. Paris: Albert Lévy, [1925]. 4to (328 x 250 mm). With 12 pp. of text and 58 plates of decorative ironwork. Housed in publisher’s portfolio of brown paper over boards, front board stamped in silver (portfolio with tape repair at upper margin, portfolio worn, soiled, inkstamp on fp. and final page of text, text toned, thumbsoiled, rubbed). [Together with:] Milan: Bestetti & Tumminelli, [ca. 1915]. 4to (350 x 250 mm). Vol. II and Vol. V housed in one portfolio (the portfolio states Vol. II). With 2 pp. of text and 46 of 60 plates (Vol. II); and 50 of 60 plates (Vol. V). Publisher’s portfolio of green cloth backstrip over cloth (portfolio worn and soiled, plates toned and rubbed at margins). FIRST EDITIONS.