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1929 English Furniture from Charles II to George II
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding
A first edition, limited to one thousand copies of which this is number 547.
Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and two hundred and fifty-nine additional figures. With one hundred and nine full page plates, of which four are in full colour. Collated, complete.
Images were collected from examples in the collection of Percival D Griffiths at Sandridgebury, a pioneering collection bringing together some beautiful examples of of early English decorative arts.
With the bookplate of E. Pinto to the front pastedown.
Written by Robert Wemyss Symonds, a British architect, and "the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture."
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Back strip a touch age toned, with rubbing to fore edge of front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good Indeed
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