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A charming original manuscript in ink on the production of paper flowers,
illustrated extensively in colour, with the inclusion of numerous colour recipes. The
manual is extremely well organised, with diagrams and tables, marked and
referenced in the text.
The first section, extending to forty-one pages, contains detailed recipes for the
production of different dyes, with descriptions of the necessary ingredients and
procedures. The second, more extensive part contains a comprehensive introduction
to the production of paper flowers, with full colour illustrations of different flowers,
and the various steps in production, such as pattern cutting, advice on how to form
leaves, petals etc, and final assembly of the different parts. There are many colour
illustrations in the text, illustrating either work steps, or the finished product. The
large folding plate shows the different tools used in paper flower production.
This manual must have been a notebook of either a master or an apprentice of paper
flower production, though clearly one with an artistic bend, as the illustrations are
both charming and competent. There is no publication recorded with a similar title,
and moreover, the spontaneous writing style makes it highly unlikely that this is a
copy of an existing book. It was possibly meant for future publication, with a few
later corrections in the text. However, no such book appears to have been published.
European paper flower production apparently originated in Italy, but in the
eighteenth century the French made great advances in the accuracy of their
reproductions and towards the end of the century Paris manufacturers enjoyed a
world-wide reputation.
Conjuring, Mathematical Games and Magic
18.
DECREMPS, Henri. La Magie Blanch Dévoilée, ou explicaiton des
Tours surprenans qui sont depuis peu l'admiration de la Capitale &
de la Province. Avec des réflexions sur la Baguette Divinatoire, les
Automates joueurs de'Echecs, &c. &c. Ouvrage orné de 101 Figures.
Tome Premier, Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Supplément a la Magie Blanche
Dévoilée. [Tome Second]. Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Testament de Jérome Sharp,
Professeur de Physique amusante; où l'on trouve, parmi pluseurs
Tours de subtilité, qu'on peut executer sans aucune dépense, des
precepts & des exemples sur l'Art de faire des Chansons impromptu.
Pour servir de Complément a la Magie Blanche Dévoilée. [Tome
Troisème]. Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Les Petites Aventures de Jérome
Sharp. Professeur de Physique amusante: Ourvage contenant autant
de Tours ingénieux que de Leçons utiles, avec quelques petits
Portraits à al manière noire.18 Figures. Bruxelles, F.J. Desoer, 1790.
£ 2400