Over 300 finely engraved designs for parlor chairs, claw tables, sideboards, desks, bookcases, writing tables, candlestands, couches, and much more. A magnificent sourcebook for antique collectors, craftworkers, artists, and cultural historians.

Illus. on lining papers.

This book describes the technical and stylistic development of English furniture in the early Georgian era

This handsome reproduction of Majorelle Fregrave;res & Cie.'s 1910 furnishings catalog includes 192 illustrations of finished products, among them Art Nouveau-styled bowls and vases, hanging lamps, wrought-iron staircase railings - including the magnificent stairway in the Galeries Lafayette in Paris - end tables, desks, cabinets, sofas, armchairs, armoires, beds, dining room sets, and more.

With over 200 detailed illustrations and descriptions, these two catalogs are essential reading and reference materials and identification guides for Stickley furniture. Among the items depicted and described are chairs, rockers, stools, settles, desks, library tables, music cabinets, drop-leaf tables, nests of tables, chests of drawers, sideboards, china cabinets and dressing tables.

Henrietta Spencer-Churchill tours a variety of Georgian houses throughout the British Isles to give a fascinating overview of the period 1700 to 1830.

There are nearly a hundred exquisite illustrations which are accompanied by the original descriptions, as published almost two hundred years ago. This book covers eight years of fashion in the Georgian period. (1821-1828) Interior designers, researchers, authors, and historical London lovers will all treasure these authentic examples of furniture and draperies.

Brian Long is well known to miniaturists as one of the proprictors of Past and Presents. Book jacket.