The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries
by Lenygon, F.H. ; Jourdain, M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Covers a little rubbed and scuffed, endpapers agetoned, occasional minor marks, Good. We have seen a different copy with gilt co
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About This Item
\T. Werner Laurie, London, first edition, 1909. Cloth, blindstamped cover-titles, 4to, 34 x 25 cm,. xii, 215, [1] pp, profusely illustrated with plates, some tipped -in. Contents include: Introductory; Chapter I. The Early English Renaissance; II. The Period of Inigo Jones; III. The Period of Wren; IV. The Period of William Kent; V. The latter half of the Eighteenth; Century; VI. Tapestries; VII. Wood Panelling; VIII. Plaster Ornamentation; IX. The School of Grinling Gibbons; X. Decorative Paintings; XI. Velvets & Damasks; XII. Lacquered Furniture; XIII. English Gesso Work; XIV. Early Georgian Chimney-Pieces; XV. The Lighting of Rooms; XVI. Carpets; XVII. Books of Reference; Index. Covers a little rubbed and scuffed, endpapers agetoned, occasional minor marks, Good. We have seen a different copy with gilt cover-titles, but ours is blindstamped with no gilt.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-57012
- Title
- The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries
- Author
- Lenygon, F.H. ; Jourdain, M
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, blindstamped cover-titles, 4to, 34 x 25 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Covers a little rubbed and scuffed, endpapers agetoned, occasional minor marks, Good. We have seen a different copy with gilt co
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- \T. Werner Laurie, London, first edition, 1909
- Date Published
- 1909
- Pages
- xii, 215, [1] pp, profusely illustrated with plates, some tipped -in
- Keywords
- Lenygon, Francis Henry Jourdain, Margaret Interior decoration -- England -- History -- 17th century. Interior decoration -- England -- History -- 18th century. Furniture -- England -- History -- 17th century. Furniture -- England -- History -- 18th centur
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- Art & Fine Arts (Bibliographies);
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