BLACKIE and SON (Publishers); The Cabinet-Maker's Assistant: The Cabinet-Maker's Assistant: A Series of Original Designs ,for Modern Furniture, with Descriptions and Details of Construction, preceded by Practical Observations on the Materials and manufacture of Cabinet-Work, and Instructions in Drawing Adapted to the Trade, frontsipiece and additional pictorial lithographic title (these both with old paper re-inforcement to lower margins), lxxx, 60, 63pp, 100 fine lithographic plates, some textual illustrations and measured drawings, large folio, (14.5 x 10 inches), old circular armorial uninked embossed library paper-stamp on title occasionally repeated in text and on plate edges, old library red morocco backed cloth boards, library stamp on title, some light thumbing and signs of use and age but generally in good condition, Glagow, Blackie, 1859. A magnificent treasure-house of mid-Victorian furniture designs, an influence for many generations and a fitting continuation of the tradition of furniture pattern books iniated by Chippendale and Sheraton. Photograph available on request. (Book ref. 15103 ) £ 295.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Jeffrey Stern Antiquarian Bookseller , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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