SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT FURNITURE DRAWN FROM EXISTING AUTHORITIES

SHAW, Henry.  SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT FURNITURE DRAWN FROM EXISTING AUTHORITIES.                                     

London: William Pickering, 1836. Folio. Contemporary quarter-morocco, cloth boards. Chromolithographic title leaf, (iv), 57 pages, 74 plates. First edition. [Abbey, Life in England, 70.]

Shaw's book of illustrations is considered a primary source for the Elizabethan and Jacobean revival of the 1830s and 1840s.  With descriptions by Sir Samuel Meyrick, furniture is treated, for the first time, as antiques;  Shaw's drawings are of surviving pieces from the medieval era through the 17th century.  A large paper copy, often not found with all the plates in color.  Very good.

 

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