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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
Geoffrey Beard; Christopher Gilbert [editors]
1986
Furniture History Society: W. S. Maney and Son Ltd. : London
10.5" by 8.5"
xviii, (16), 1046pp.
SUMMARY
A smart first edition of this illustrated dictionary of English furniture makers, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.
First Edition,Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Fine
This book weighs 2 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
First edition.
Illustrated with forty-three images across sixteen plates. Collated complete.
Compiled over a period of seven years by nearly four hundred researchers, this volume acts as the definitive reference work on furniture makers of any nationality active in England between 1660 and 1840. Intended for the use of historians and collectors, as well as anyone with an interest in antique furniture.
Edited by Geoffrey Beard, an English architectural historian, museum director, teacher and writer, and Christopher Gallard Gilbert, a British furniture historian and museum curator who was a founding member of the Furniture History Society.
CONDITION
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear to the extremities and minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot to the endpapers.
Overall Condition: Fine Near Fine
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
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Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
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often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
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Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
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