DECORATION & FURNITURE OF TOWN HOUSES

EDIS, Robert W.  DECORATION & FURNITURE OF TOWN HOUSES.      

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. 8vo. Pubisher's gilt cloth, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, xvi, 292, 28 plates. First edition.

Scarce first edition.  This book is an extension of the author's series of Cantor Lectures to The Society of Arts in 1880 and this is enlarged and amplified.  An illustrated practical guide to Victorian furniture and household objects with credits to Morris & Co., Holland & Sons, Gillow, Trollope, Doulton, Minton, Wedgwood, etc., including interesting locks, bell-lever, and keys by Thomas Elsey.  A splendid aesthetic item.  A fine copy.

 

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