Azulejo Sevillano: Catalogo del Museo de Artes Y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla / Sevillian Tiles: Catalog of the Museum of Popular Arts and Customs of Seville (In Spanish)

Description

Author: Hernández, Alfonso Pleguezuelo  (1954-)

Publisher: Padilla Libros (Seville, Spain)

Pub Date: 1989

Binding: Paperback (with flaps)

Condition:  Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/32″ x 1/8″ crease.  Upper front cover edge near spine head has an approx. 1″ bend (bumped).  Front cover spine edge foxed.  Some smudging to rear cover.  Light edge wear.  Includes ephemera.

Notes:  IN SPANISH.  Not an exhibit catalog, but a catalog of a museum collection.  Tiles produced in the Majolica manner, glossy, bright colors, great designs and subject matters.   “Under the generic title of this publication, two texts of distinct content are in reality grouped together: on the one hand, the cataloging of the tiles housed in the Museum of Popular Arts and Customs in Seville—which constitute an exceptional collection, given the variety of types, their chronology,  and the aesthetic significance of the pieces comprising it….which, as a preliminary step, necessitated a review of the current state of knowledge regarding the subject of Sevillian tile-making from a historical perspective, particularly spanning the 16th through the 18th centuries, the periods to which the most important collections discussed herein date.”  (Translated from the Introduction)  Ephemera is a postcard of the cover image, and the author’s business card.  From the library of the late archaeologist Florence Lister.