Vintage Book Set c1911 Decorative Furniture Design History Edwin Foley Large H/B

Description: Lovely, large illustrated book set describing the Design and History of English, French and American decorative furniture: The Book of Decorative Furniture - Its Form, Colour & History by Edwin Foley Published by T. C. & E. C. Jack Limited. Not dated (by reference to other copies of the work around 1911). Complete two volume set. 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; Principal Trees etc etc. Volume I: Decorative furniture from the Earliest Times to 1475; Decorative Furniture in Britain Prior to 1475; A Timetable of Architectural Styles; The Late Gothic Period in British Decorative Furniture 1475-1509; The Tudor Renaissance Period in British Decorative Furniture 1509-1603; Continental Contemporaries of the Late Gothic and Tudor Periods; A Chapter on the Chair; A Family Tree for the Tree family; The Stuart Period of British Decorative Woodwork 1603-1688; The Later renaissance in France; First Chapter on Colonial Furniture in America 1607-1783; Late and Zopf Renaissance in Germany from 1603; Spanish and Portuguese Decorative Furniture from 1603; Italian Decorative Furniture from 1603; Decorative Furniture of the Netherlands from 1603; The Louis XIV Period of French Decorative Furniture 1643-1715; British Homes of Other Dates; Finds, Frauds, Facts and Fancies in Old Furniture - a Chapter on Collecting; The William and Anne Period 1688-1727; Modes of Ornament in Decorative Furniture. Volume II: The Chippendale School of Georgian Decorative Woodwork; Typical Details of British Woodwork Styles; Decorative Furniture as a Mirror of Manners; Second Chapter on Colonial Furniture in America 1607-1783; the Georgian Period in British Decorative Furniture - the Work of the Brothers Adam and their Assistants; Notes Upon Accessory Furnishing s and Decorations; The Georgian Period of British Decorative Furniture (continued) - the Heppelwhite-Shearer School; Chapter on the Bed, the Cradle and the Cot; Regency and Louis XV Periods of French Decorative Furniture 1715-1774; Some of the Chief French Designers, other Artists and Woodwork Craftsmen Associated with French Decorative Styles and the Periods During Which they Worked from the Commencement of Louis XIV's reign to the end of the first Empire; The Louis XIV Period of French Decorative Furniture 1774-1789; the Directoire, Consulate and First Empire Periods of French Decorative Furniture 1795-1815; A Chapter on Woods;Principal Woods Used in Decorative Furniture; The Georgian Period of British Decorative Furniture (continued) The Sheraton School 1775-1810; Typical Examples of Brass Handles; The Georgian Period of British Decorative Woodwork - the Sheraton School continued. Handsome binding in brown board with gilt decoration to book spines. Large Hardbacks. About 800 pages in total. 24 cm by 31 cm. Good condition Minor wear and marks to covers. Slight fading to covers. Binding tight. Some foxing to front and back pages. Very occasional mark to inside pages but most pages clean. Occasional page corner creased. If you like this item you might be interested in our other art books: IanTheHippo: Art Books

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Location: Sutton Coldfield

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