The Cabinet-Maker And Upholsterer's Guide: Being A Complete Drawing Book; In Which Will Be Comprised Treatises On Geometry And Perspective, As Applicable To The Above Branches Of Mechanics; etc.

217 pages in text. 27 x 20 cm. 152 plates, colored frontispiece, additional pictorial title page, and thirty-nine hand-colored plates, colored from the original drawings, plus 115 plain. Index. The title is almost as long as a chapter. Some plates bound out of order, number of leaves remargined, plate offsetting, and scattered light foxing throughout. Comprehensive review of Regency household furniture and interior decoration with elegantly colored examples. With the usual misnumbering of plates, examples being XXXIV, LII & CXL. Moderate foxing and dust smudging, toning mostly marginal. Front cover rehinged, endpapers renewed. ABBEY LIFE 73. Contemporary sheep rebacked, portions of original spine laid-down, red leather spine label. Very good.