Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Dean-Hicks Company, 1929.
Price: $25.00
Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 438pp. With over 900 illustrations in black and white. Private library bookplate on front pastedown and manuscript library marking ("Fu") at spine base. Spine toned with rubbing near the base, binding with moderate rubbing and wear, and some soil, upper hinge with a thin split that has been neatly and archivally reinforced, sound and about very good. The text and illustrations have been well-preserved. "A concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothic of the fifteenth century to the Classical Revival of the early nineteenth with the minimum of descriptive text and the maximum of illustrations" (from the title page).
Item #620758
