Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Dustcover poor but book is good. Year 1955. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> THIS book is about furniture-making of the past: it is especially an account of the woods the fashions the techniques of the several craftsmen who made furniture and of the economic and social circumstances of the time. It is therefore a work which will be equally useful to the collector with a small purse the millionaire and the stu-dent. Old furniture is not all of a piece – some of it was made for the wealthy nobility some for people of the middling sort and some for the country poor; and furniture produced in a pro-vincial town is not the same as the furniture made by a prominent cabinet-maker in London. All these different classes of old furniture are des-scribed. Above all this book will help to guard the collector from the variety of faked furniture some of which has now grown old: the different methods of faking and the several aims of the faker are explained in copious detail. In 1921 R. W. Symonds wrote The Present State of Old English Furniture a book which went to the heart of the matter because it pointed out to the col-lector what he should seek for and what he should avoid. Furniture-Making in 17th and 18th Century England has been written after thirty-three years more experience of this fascinating but difficult subject. There is also a chapter on clocks and on the alteration and restoration of their movements and cases a subject which has never been written about before. (OS)