IDEAS FOR RUSTIC FURNITURE

(RUSTIC FURNITURE)  IDEAS FOR RUSTIC FURNITURE PROPER FOR GARDEN SEATS, SUMMER HOUSES, HERMITAGES, COTTAGES, ETC.

London: I. & J. Taylor, (circa 1790). 8vo. Contemporary blue wrappers. 23 engraved plates, including title leaf.  First edition.

"One of the rarest of eighteenth-century furniture plate books," it was the subject of an article by Morrison Heckscher, "Eighteenth Century Rustic Furniture Designs," (Furniture History, XI, 1975, pages 59-65).  Although copies are found in libraries, it is rare in trade.  We could only find one copy selling at auction in the past twenty-five years--that in 1988.  Some scholars have attributed the work to William Wrighte due to similarities in design styles but there are no facts to substantiate this attribution.  This is the only eighteenth-century English pattern book devoted entirely to rustic furniture.  Plates offer designs for chairs, stools, sofas, tables, looking glasses, and chimney pieces.  Ink presentation on front wrapper, names inked out on inside front cover, original wrappers chipped, else a nice, unsophisticated, uncut copy.

 

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