Is it genuine?: A guide to the identification of eighteenth-century English furniture by Crawley, W - 1972-01-01

Hart Publishing Company. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hart Publishing Company, 1972. Unbound. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York City: Hart Publishing Company, Inc, 1972. Hardcover. G+ (DJ has average edge wear, also has some foxing along top inside edge of dj; bookplate inside front cover, pages and illus. are good.). Black cloth, red title plate with gilt letters on spine, woodgrained dust jacket, 188 pp., 86 BW illus. "Will enable everyone -- dealer, collector, or antique browser -- to determine the authenticity of a piece of purported 18th Century furniture. The author reminds us that at the end of the 18th Century there were probably no more than twelve and one-half million people in Great Britain, and that at most there were two million families. Of these, only a very small percentage could have afforded the prices charged by the master craftsmen of that fabulous age: Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite. If this is so, where did the thousands of 'existing' pieces of authentic antiques come from? Clearly these must have been cleverly reproduced. By what methods? The author's chapter, 'How to Make an Antique,'… Read More

New York: Hart Pub. Co.. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805510419 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner name on FEP. Lightly sunned spine. 1/4 inch open tear at bottom of front panel. ; 10.2 X 7.7 X 0.9 inches .

Hart Pub. Co, 1972-01-01. First. Hardcover. Used:Good.

New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc., [1972]., 1972. 8vo. pp. 188. profusely illus. cloth. dw. (extremities slightly chipped).. Hardcover.