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Yale University Press, 2013. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket edges are very lightly worn. Cover is in good condition, apart from light shelf wear. Binding is tight, and inside is clean and unmarked.

Size: 9x1x12; Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Chocolate cloth with gilt lettering; sepia photographic dust jacket with white/gold lettering; decorative end pages, xxi, 285 pp. with color and duotone images throughout. Text in English. This exhibition catalogue addresses Hoentschel's biography, business contacts, and contacts, as well as the arrival of his collection in New York, its lavish 4-volume ilustrated catalogue and the medieval collections. Hoentschel, the celebrated Parisian decorater/designer, sold his collection of more than 2, 000 decorative arts objects to John Pierpont Morgan who was, at the time, the President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Morgan immediately donated the works to the museum and loaned the medieval collection, later donated to the museum by his son. This collection formed the basis of the Department for Decorative Arts at the Met, the first of its kind in a US institution.

Chocolate cloth with gilt lettering; sepia photographic dust jacket with white/gold lettering; decorative end pages, xxi, 285 pp. with color and duotone images throughout. Text in English. This exhibition catalogue addresses Hoentschel's biography, business contacts, and contacts, as well as the arrival of his collection in New York, its lavish 4-volume ilustrated catalogue and the medieval collections. Hoentschel, the celebrated Parisian decorater/designer, sold his collection of more than 2, 000 decorative arts objects to John Pierpont Morgan who was, at the time, the President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Morgan immediately donated the works to the museum and loaned the medieval collection, later donated to the museum by his son. This collection formed the basis of the Department for Decorative Arts at the Met, the first of its kind in a US institution.