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1978 The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase
Comprising a biography of Chippendale, his business, furniture designs, his patrons and commissions.
Thomas Chippendale was a London-based cabinet maker and influential designer. His work is synonymous with the trends of the eighteenth century in furniture design, with his work covering English Rococo, Neoclassical and mid-Georgian styles.
Written by Christopher Gallard Gilbert, a museum curator and furniture historian; published in association with Christie's.
Lavishly illustrated, with colour illustrations to the first volume, and black and white throughout the second.
Complete in two volumes presented in the original slipcase.
Condition
In the publisher's original full cloth binding with a slipcase. Externally very smart. Slipcase has a little minor wear to the edges as to be expected. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. A tear to page 53 of volume two.
Near Fine
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