Georgian Cabinet-Makers.
by EDWARDS, Ralph and JOURDAIN, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Country Life. Very Good/No DJ. 1944. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 4to Red cloth with gilt titling. No ownership marks. Frontis plate. "Margaret Jourdain teamed with Ralph Edwards, keeper of Furniture & Woodwork, the Victoria and Albert Museum, to produce Georgian Cabinet-Makers (1944, 1951), a series of biographies of the major London furniture-makers from the Restoration of Charles II to 1800, supported by archival work, which had not been a strong feature of previous connoisseurship. As revised by Edwards, it remained the essential standard in the field for several decades until superseded by work by Peter Ward-Jackson, Christopher Gilbert, Helena Hayward, and members of the Furniture History Society." xiv, 183pp clean and tighr .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 116698
- Title
- Georgian Cabinet-Makers.
- Author
- EDWARDS, Ralph and JOURDAIN, Margaret
- Illustrator
- 171 b/w Photographs & Illustrations on Plates.
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cloth Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/No DJ
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Country Life
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1944
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
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