English and American furniture : a pictorial handbook of fine furniture made in Great Britain and in the American colonies, some in the sixteenth century, but principally in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / by Herbert Cescinsky and George Leland Hunter
1929, 1st edition. Garden City, New York : Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #429400
Physical description; 8 unnumbered pages, 9-311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; "Craftsmen and authors of design books in England in the eighteenth century": pages 302-304. Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-311). Contents; Gothic and Tudor oak furniture -- English and American furniture of seventeenth century type -- The "Windsor" or "Turned" chair -- Lacquer work -- Development of the English walnut chair -- English and American mahogany chairs -- American and English Dado furniture -- Double chests, high-boys and cabinets -- Side tables, sideboards and commodes -- Mahogany tripod furniture -- Occasional tables -- Wall furniture of the eighteenth century -- Hepplewhite chairs : English and American -- Wall and toilet mirrors : American and English -- Thomas Sheraton and Duncan Phyfe. Subjects; Furniture England History. Furniture United States History. Furniture. England. United States.
Price: €18.95