Preface by Ralph Edwards (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Price clipped dust jacket has small edgewear repairs. Text has light foxing (age-spots), otherwise without flaw 5 X 8" 120 pages published 1949. Thomas Sheraton's "Drawing Book" is the most import work of English Furniture design of the last decade of the 18th century. This book presents Sheraton's designs for furniture and ornamental detail from his famous Drawing Book (1791 to 1794). The designs are the model for and guide to the Sheraton style. Of the 113 plates, all covering furniture and ornamental details are reproduced here. Only those illustrating Sheraton's dissertations on geometry, architecture and perspective have been omitted. Thomas Sheraton (illustrator).…

12pp plus 84 bw plates. 19x13, black cloth, no dw. Good, owners' names on fep.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile Reprint. Facsimile reprint 1965 near fine hardback, light foxing to page edges, in a near fine dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed. No inscription. 80 pages. Illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. We can only supply this book to a United Kingdom address due to the very heavy weight, no extra postage will be adked for. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Red cloth boards with bright gilt titling. Top edge gilt. No ownership inscription. Colour frontis plate. Numerous photographs. 684 pages clean and tight. The new Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, prepared by Mr Edwards with the assistance of Mr Edward Joy. For convenience of reference, cabinet-makers and other craftsmen are now grouped together at the end of the book, instead of being dispersed as formerly throughout the text. Although it has always been termed a Dictionary, it is in reality a great deal more. The object of its authors, from the inception of the work, has been not merely to provide a reference to pieces of furniture, technical processes, furniture designers, cabinet-makers and so on, but to give the reader an insight into the history of English domestic furniture and its place in changing social habits. There are approximately 1,900 in this volume. Some examples have been substituted as being finer or more representative. The text has been re-set and in every way this Shorter Dictionary is a worthy successor to the original great work. Size: Lge 4to. 1900 Illustrations / Photographs (illustrator).…