THE CABINET MAKER: A JOURNAL OF DESIGNS

CHARLES, Richard.  THE CABINET MAKER: A JOURNAL OF DESIGNS.

                                               

London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1868. Folio. Publisher's red quarter-morocco, green cloth faux moir silk. (iv) pages, 96 plates of which 3 sets are double-paged and 1 folding. First edition.

Although several copies are recorded in OCLC in university and museum libraries, no copies are recorded in the American Book Prices Current as being in the trade for more than twenty-five years.  A comprehensive Victorian design book "for the use of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, decorators, carvers, gilders, and others," also illustrating early examples of Aesthetic Movement designs.  Sympathetically rebacked using the original spine as an overlay.  Minor wear to tips of boards, else very good.

 

$2,850.00