CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE CIRCA 1745-1765: The Work of Thomas Chippendale and His Contemporaries in the Rococo Taste: Vile, Cobb, Langlois, Channon, Hallett, Ince, Mayhew, Lock, Johnson & Others

by Coleridge, Anthony

1st American Edition

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NY: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1968 Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket (Now in Mylar). 229 pp. Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over black boards, gilt (black) lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with three color plates and 420 B&W plates. There are extensive notes to the illustrations, brief biographies on leading cabinet makers working with in the Director Tradition, and extensive Bibliography and Index. The volume is free of all marks and blemishes and the text and illustrations are all clean and bright. The dust jacket shows minor wear and some smudging. FINE/VERY GOOD+. This book covers the development and period of predominance of the English Rococo Style in furniture, exemplified by the first and longest part of Thomas Chippendale's career, up to the time when rococo was replaced by neo-classicism. One of the most important Chippendale monographs. This is an indispensable reference for those with an interest in Chippendale. . 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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