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1978 The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale
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Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Signed
The first editions, first impressions of these volumes.
Inscribed by the author to the title page of volume II: 'For Ken from his friend the author, Christopher Gilbert'.
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.
Illustrated throughout each volume.
Rebound in half calf, with endpapers renewed.
Condition
Rebound in half calf, with cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, very smart, but with minor areas of fading to tail of volume I front board, and to the front board of volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to volume II title page. Pages clean and bright.
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