By Percy Macquoid
London   The Medici Society; Lawrence & Bullen
13" by 11" 243; 271; 260; 247
An excellent set of Percy Macquoid’s richly illustrated furniture studies, complete here in four volumes, each dedicated to an era of wood.
By Percy Macquoid

1925 A History of English Furniture (The Age of Oak; The Age of Satinwood; The Age of Walnut; The Age of Mahogany)

London   The Medici Society; Lawrence & Bullen
13" by 11" 243; 271; 260; 247
An excellent set of Percy Macquoid’s richly illustrated furniture studies, complete here in four volumes, each dedicated to an era of wood.
£280.00
: 10kgs / : 981Y24

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Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A new edition from the Medici Society. Complete in four volumes.  

In the original cloth bindings.

Each volumes is adorned with fifteen colour plates and many monochrome illustrations throughout the text. Collated, complete.

Offering this authoritative history of English furniture from Percy Macquoid, a British connoisseur of the field and the author of numerous articles for Country Life. This work is considered the first major survey of the subject, and are largely reprinted and of use today. His ‘Age of’ terms have become the standard terms for referring to these different periods and styles.

The Age of Oak 

The Age of Mahogany 

The Age of Satinwood 

The Age of Walnut

Condition

In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart indeed, with really only mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Only a small contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper of ‘Age of Oak’.

Near Fine

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