The House Decorator and Painter's Guide; Containing a Series of Designs for Decorating Apartments, Suited to the Various Styles of Architecture

A vanishingly scarce, first edition for this guide for household painters, illustrated with copious hand coloured plates. A first edition of this vanishingly scarce work, written Henry William and A. Arrowsmith, decorators to Queen Victoria. Rebound in modern, half calf with marbled paper boards. Endpapers renewed. Illustrated with sixty-one monochrome and hand coloured aquatint engravings. Collated, complete. A fantastic and thoroughly illustrated guide to various styles and techniques of elaborate interior decoration. The workdetails techniques of pannelling, including Greek, Roman, Royal French and British. The illustrations include detailed ceiling ornamentation, numerous Renaissance room elevations, many extravagant scapes of pillars, archvolts, friezes and cornices with further designs for mouldings, statuettes and pillastres. The only work published by this obscure author. Rebound in modern, half calf with marbled paper boards. Endpapers renewed.Externally, smart. With marks to leather at rear board. Light rubbing to extremities and joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot or handing mark to plates. Marginal age toning througout. Very Good Indeed.…