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1923 Old English Walnut & Lacquer Furniture
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated
The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.
The Times Book Club label to the front paste down.
Ink inscription to the front paste down, dated 1923. Illustrated with forty black-and-white plates. Collated, complete.
A delightful study of walnut and lacquer furniture made throughout English history, looking into its design and worth at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Written by R. W. Symonds, the pre-eminent scholar and authority of English furniture in the twentieth century. He is also known for his famously complicated love life.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart and bright with just a little fading to the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Plates vii, xi and xii are coming loose to the head, and plates xiii and xvii are detached, but all are intact.
Very Good
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