IMPORTANT ENGLISH FURNITURE & TAPESTRIES
Catalog Information: 454 lots | 452 with images
Lot 1: MACQUOID, PERCY. A History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak; The Age of Walnut; The Age of Mahogany; The Age of Satinwood. London: Medici Society and Lawrence & Bullen, 1925-1928.
4 volumes, folio (37.5 x 27.5cm.), half-titles, 60 colour plates after Shirley Slocombe, 944 black and white illustrations in the text. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt (very slightly faded), t.e.g. Provenance: Willoughby Norman (bookplate by [...more]
Lot 2: MACQUOID, PERCY AND RALPH EDWARDS. The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the late Georgian Period, [Second edition] revised and enlarged by Ralph Edwards. London: Country Life, 1954.
3 volumes, folio (38 x 25.5cm.), half-titles, coloured frontispieces and 40 plates, numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., in slightly torn dust-jackets (3).
Lot 3: CESCINSKY, HERBERT. English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1909]-1911.
3 volumes, 4to (31 x 24.5cm.), half-title in vol.III, 11 full-page black and white plates, over 1,163 illustrations in the text. Original green half morocco (spines faded, some rubbing, hinges of vols.II-III cracked), t.e.g. (3).
Lot 4: THE LIBRARY OF DECORATIVE ARTS
comprising: English Decoration and Furniture of the early Renaissance (1500-1650)... by M. Jourdain. London: B.T. Batsford, 1924; Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760 by Francis Lenygon, Second edition revised. London: B.T. Batsford, 1927; Furnitu [...more]
Lot 5: MACQUOID, PERCY. A History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak; The Age of Walnut; The Age of Mahogany; The Age of Satinwood. London: Medici Society and Lawrence & Bullen, 1925-1928.
4 volumes, folio (37.5 x 27.5cm.), half-titles, 60 colour plates after Shirley Slocombe, 944 black and white illustrations in the text. (Vols.III-IV with waterstain in lower margins, the latter with marginal tears). Original maroon cloth, lettered in [...more]
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