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WELSH STICK CHAIRS
Written by John Brown.
Stock no. 1824654
Published by Stobart Davies. 1st thus 2009. Almost very good condition.

Revised edition with a new introduction by Nick Gibbs. Green card wraps, black titles. 94 pages including index. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780854420834. A few grubby marks to covers. Previous bookseller's label to rear cover. Damp stain (coffee?) to top margins of pages 87 - rear cover (does not affect text). A few pages are lightly crinkled from damp.

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MACKINTOSH FURNITURE
Written by Roger Billcliffe.
Stock no. 1824085
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A look at Mackintosh's career as a furniture designer and illustrating with over 250 b/w photos all his major pieces, as well as the interiors for which they were produced. Black boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0718825640. Slight mottling to boards. Spine cocked. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut lightly edge-worn and lightly scuffed. Faint musty odour present.

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THE STORY OF FURNITURE
Written by Gordon Russell. Illustrated by Jacques Groag.
Stock no. 1323218
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book 50. Oblong format, pictorial paper covers. Colour and b/w illustrations. The story of furniture from ancient times. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Light foxing to page edges.

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ENGLISH FURNITURE FROM CHARLES II TO GEORGE II
Written by R.W. Symonds.
Stock no. 1816500
Published by Antique Collectors' Club. 1980. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Brown suede style covers, gilt titles and borders. Originally published in 1929, this is a reprint edition, Limited to 1500 copies. With more than 260 Illustrations from examples in the Collection of Percival D. Griffiths. A full account of the Design, Material and Quality of Workmanship of Walnut and Mahogany Furniture of this period; and of how Spurious Specimens are made. ISBN: 0902028952. This is copy 1000 of 1500 copies. Inscription in ink to first blank page.

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THE BOOK OF DECORATIVE FURNITURE ITS FORM, COLOUR, & HISTORY (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Edwin Foley. Illustrated by Edwin Foley; et al..
Stock no. 2126391
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Brown cloth with gilt titles to spines; blind titles and decorations to front covers. With One Hundred Reproductions in Full-Colour Facsimile of Drawings by the Author, and One Thousand Text Illustrations; Correlated Charts of British Woodwork Styles and Contemporaries; Decorative Furnishing Accessories; Principle Trees; &c. Bumping and wear to spines, corners and cover edges. Tear to top of spine on Volume II. Other smaller nicks and chips, with some fraying to cloth. What looks like damp marks to bottom of front cover of Volume II. Spotting to covers. All plates present. Foxing, mostly to endpapers and outer page edges.

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CABINETMAKING THE PROFESSIONAL APPROACH
Written by Alan Peters.
Stock no. 2125934
Published by Stobart & Son. 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 085442024X. SIGNED by author to front endpaper. Light fading to top and tail of spine. Wrapper is edge-creased with uneven browning.

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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Percy Macquoid. Illustrated by S. Slocombe.
Stock no. 1814367
Published by Lawrence And Bullen Ltd.. 1st 1904. Very good condition.

The Age of Oak, The Age of Walnut, The Age of Mahogany, and The Age of Satinwood. Very large, heavy volumes. Red cloth boards, gilt titles with publisher vignette to front. Top edges gilt. 15 colour plates, after Shirley Slocombe, per volume with titled tissue-guard. Numerous b/w illustrations by the author. First published 1904; 1905; 1906; and 1908 respectively. Uneven fading to cloth and spines are very faded with a few marks. Slight fraying to board corners. Some scattered foxing present, some foxing to plates - some badly foxed to margins, others just a little, others clean. All plates and tissue-guards present. Some plates detached mostly in The Age of Oak, some of these are worn at edges and creased but not affecting the subject of the plate. All volumes are first editions 1904-1908. A few margin marks. A very nice set for someone with an interest in furniture making.

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH INTERIORS
Written by Alan Gore; Ann Gore.
Stock no. 2111086
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1st thus 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0714834688. A few marks to covers.

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BAROQUE AND ROCOCO
Written by Erich Hubala.
Stock no. 1604762
Published by The Herbert Press. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition.

Card wraps. The Herbert History of Art and Architecture. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 1871569044.

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PEWS, BENCHES & CHAIRS
Written by Trevor Cooper; Sarah Brown.
Stock no. 1706471
Published by The Ecclesiological Society. 1st 2011. Fine condition.

Church Seating in English Parish Churches from the fourteenth century to the present. Card wraps. B/w photos. 500 pages. ISBN: 9780946823178.

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CITTA DI TORINO MOSTRA DEL BAROCCO PIEMONTESE (3 VOLUMES)
No author listed.
Stock no. 586198
Published by Citta Di Torino. 1st 1963. Slightly better than very good condition.

Three volumes. Pictorial card wraps. Architettura Scenografia; Mobili E Intagli, Tessuti E Ricami, Maioliche, Porcellane Argenti, Libri E Rilegature Monete E Medaglie; Pittura, Scultura Arazzi. B/w photos. Text in Italian. Covers of volume II are unevenly faded.

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