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Early 19th Century English Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
Handsome Regency breakfront bookcase of very good quality construction with fine original glazing
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
ENGLISH PAINTED NEO CLASSICAL STYLE BREAKFRONT/BOOKCASE
Located in Hudson, NY
A PAINTED ENGLISH NEO CLASSICAL BREAKFRONT/BOOKCASE WITH PAINTED INTERIOR, AND ACCENT PAINTING ON
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
Regency Rosewood Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Suffolk, GB
A Regency rosewood breakfront bookcase of good proportions and superb quality.
This bookcase
Category
Antique 1820s English Regency Bookcases
Materials
Rosewood
PERIOD IRISH GEORGE III SMALL BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE
Located in Natchez, MS
Period George III Small Scale Breakfront Bookcase with original glazing and inlay. Wonderful gothic
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Irish Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood, Kingwood, Ebony
Quality Mahogany William IV Period Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Salisbury, GB
A very fine quality and well proportioned mahogany and William IV period breakfront bookcase. With
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Bookcases
English Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase/Display Case
Located in Roswell, GA
Fine Chippendale style mahogany breakfront bookcase, with fretted swan-neck pediment. Dentil
Category
Early 20th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Brass
George III Period Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
antique breakfront bookcase, attributed to Gillow of Lancaster, this bookcase has wonderful flame mahogany
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Huge Georgian Mahogany Antique Breakfront Bookcase
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
George III period mahogany breakfront bookcase of gargantuan proportions, one of the most elegant
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Victorian Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
A mid 19th century Victorian mahogany four door breakfront bookcase.
The bookcase has four
Category
Antique 19th Century British Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Breakfront Bookcase in the Chinoiserie Style
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This is a very nice breakfront bookcase made in the USA in the Chinoiserie style.It's really a
Category
Vintage 1940s Bookcases
A fine Hepplewhite mahogany breakfront bookcase
Located in New York, NY
A fine Hepplewhite mahogany breakfront bookcase in original condition, crested by a cove moulding
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood, Ebony
Pair of Large Edwardian Breakfront Bookcases, Circa 1900
Located in Lake Forest, IL
Pair of Large Edwardian Ebonized Breakfront Bookcases, original glazing, in two pieces each
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Wood, Glass
George III Style Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Edinburgh, GB
George III style mahogany breakfront bookcase, circa 1900. It is surmounted by a neat moulded
Category
Antique Early 1900s George III Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Refined Regency Rosewood Breakfront Bookcase, C 1810
Located in New York, NY
Refined Regency breakfront bookcase executed in rosewood and enriched with ormolu trim and mounts
Category
20th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Rosewood
Early 19th Century English Regency Inverted Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An impressive, early 19th century Regency inverted breakfront bookcase in mahogany with the
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Quality Antique Mahogany Astragal Glazed Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Stutton, GB
A quality astragal glazed breakfront bookcase, the upper section having dentil cornice above four
Category
Early 20th Century European Edwardian Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
George lll Period Mahogany Library Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
A late George III period mahogany Library Breakfront Bookcase, unusually slender from back to front
Category
Antique 19th Century British George III Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Mahogany George III Style Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Darwen, GB
A mahogany George III style breakfront bookcase. The cornice of breakfront outline having dentil
Category
Antique Early 1900s George III Bookcases
19th Century Rosewood Breakfront Bookcase Brass Inlaid, circa 1870
Located in London, Greenwich
19th century rosewood breakfront bookcase brass inlaid, circa 1870.
Sympathetically restored and
Category
Antique 1870s English Victorian Bookcases
Materials
Rosewood
19th Century English Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Chamblee, GA
19th Century English Mahogany breakfront bookcase in wonderful condition. The cornice features a
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
19th Century Scottish Pine Breakfront Bookcase attributed to Trollope
By Giles, Gough and Trollope Architects
Located in Poling, West Sussex
19thC Scottish Pine Breakfront Bookcase attributed to Trollope The design and the way it breaks
Category
Antique 19th Century European Bookcases
Materials
Pine
Antique 19th Century Victorian Glazed Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Longdon, Tewkesbury
breakfront bookcase with adjustable dogstooth shelving to accommodate different sized books, with four
Category
Antique 19th Century Bookcases
George III Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Woodbury, CT
A George III period breakfront bookcase in boldly figured mahogany; marked "No. 2" of an identical
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Antique 19th Century Victorian Glazed Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Longdon, Tewkesbury
breakfront bookcase with adjustable dogstooth shelving to accommodate different sized books, with four
Category
Antique 19th Century Bookcases
Fine George III Period Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
A particularly fine George III period mahogany breakfront bookcase of very good form. Low waisted
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase, China, Display Cabinet
Located in Vancouver, BC
A good quality mahogany four-door breakfront bookcase, display cabinet, the moulded rectangular top
Category
20th Century Scottish Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Glass
An 18th C. Compact English Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase Cabinet
Located in Woodbury, CT
A mahogany George III breakfront bookcase with glazed doors above panelled doors below. The size
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century George III Period Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in London, GB
An important 18th century George III Chippendale period mahogany breakfront bookcase of slender
Category
Antique 18th Century English Chippendale Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century George III Period Mahogany Antique Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Large-scale 18th century George III period mahogany antique breakfront bookcase. An antique
Category
Antique 18th Century British George III Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Victorian Mahogany Four-Door Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Salisbury, GB
A substantial Victorian mahogany breakfront bookcase with well figured veneers, circa 1870.
Category
Antique 1870s English Victorian Furniture
Outstanding Country House English Breakfront Bookcase in Elm
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An outstanding, and with a fantastic colour, late George III, English Country House, breakfront
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Elm, Glass
Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase with Belgian Fossil Marble Top, circa 1810
Located in Avington, Hampshire
A mahogany veneered and ebony inlaid breakfront bookcase with Belgian fossil marble top. The
Category
Antique 1810s British Bookcases
Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Honiton, Devon
Wonderful quality late 19th century walnut bookcase, very capacious piece with good depth in the
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
$2,470
19th Century Oak Breakfront Bookcase Attributed to G Bullock
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
George Bullock. An excellent oak and burr oak breakfront bookcase the timbers finely figured, the
Category
Antique 19th Century British Bookcases
Materials
Oak
Fine Regency Style Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase, 19th Century
Located in Louisville, KY
Unusual Regency Style Breakfront Bookcase, Circa 1830-50; Most Probably Irish, with a conforming
Category
20th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
William IV Period Rosewood Inverted Breakfront Bookcase or Side Cabinet
Located in Cambridge, GB
William IV period rosewood inverted-breakfront bookcase/side-cabinet; the central open section
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Bookcases
A George III Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase, English 18th Century
Located in Woodbury, CT
A George III mahogany breakfront bookcase, English, circa 1760-70.The upper section of breakfront
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century English Large Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This is a very nice large mahogany breakfront bookcase made in England circa 1880.
The base has
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
A Very Fine Regency Period Breakfront Bookcase in Mahogany
Located in Madrid, ES
A very fine Regency Period breakfront bookcase in mahogany. The uper section has four doors each
Category
Antique 19th Century British Regency Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Superb Figured Walnut 1920s Period Antique Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Darwen, GB
A superb figured walnut 1920s period antique breakfront bookcase. The upper section of breakfront
Category
Vintage 1920s Bookcases
19th Century Walnut and Burr Walnut Breakfront Bookcase, Stamped Holland
Sons
By Holland
Sons
Located in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
A 19th century walnut & burr walnut breakfront bookcase, the breakfront top with 12 adjustable
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
An 18th C. English Chippendale Breakfront Bookcase China Cabinet
Located in Woodbury, CT
A George III mahogany breakfront bookcase after a design specific to Thomas Chippendale's "Director
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Chippendale Style Late 19th Century Breakfront Bookcase in Darkly Stained Oak
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Chippendale style breakfront bookcase from the late 19th-early 20th century in darkly stained oak
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Chippendale Bookcases
Materials
Oak
English Breakfront Bookcase
Located in San Francisco, CA
A mid 19th Century English mahogany breakfront, secretary bookcase.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Wood, Leather, Glass
Pine Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Santa Rosa, CA
Highly decorative and functional bookcase
Category
20th Century Bookcases
Materials
Pine, Glass
$7,500
Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Millwood, VA
Mahogany sectional bookcase with two upper central astragal glazed doors over a single drawer and
Category
Antique 1880s Scottish Regency Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Walnut Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Honiton, Devon
Wonderful quality late 19th century walnut bookcase, very capacious piece with good depth in the
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Fine Quality Mahogany Victorian Period Four Door Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Darwen, GB
A fine quality mahogany Victorian period four-door breakfront bookcase. The upper section having a
Category
Antique 1860s Victorian Bookcases
An 18th Century English Mahogany George III Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Woodbury, CT
A Fine 18th century George III breakfront bookcase in mahogany, Circa 1785. In eight sections, the
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Walnut Bookcase, Three Door Breakfront Bookcase, Scotland 1910, B1354
Located in Vancouver, BC
Antique Walnut Bookcase, Three Door Breakfront Bookcase, Scotland 1910, Antique Furniture, B1354
Category
Vintage 1910s Scottish Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
George III Style Chinoiserie Decorated Black Japanned Breakfront/Bookcase
Located in Westport, CT
George III style Chinoiserie decorated black Japanned breakfront/bookcase. Beautiful Chinese
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American George III Bookcases
George IV Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase in the Greek-Revival Style
Located in Banksmeadow, NSW
A George IV mahogany breakfront bookcase in the Greek-revival style, the stepped moulded cornice
Category
Antique 1830s English Greek Revival Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
George IV Regency Period Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase Secretaire, circa 1810
Located in Wiltshire, GB
A handsome George IV Regency period mahogany breakfront bookcase with central fitted secretaire
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Bookcases
William IV Mahogany Inverted Breakfront Bookcase of Small Proportions
Located in Suffolk, GB
A superb quality William IV mahogany inverted breakfront bookcase of small proportions.
This
Category
Antique 1830s English William IV Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
A Pine Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Mississauga, ON
A Mid. 19th Century Pine Breakfront Secretaire Bookcase; the glazed upper section with gothic
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
$12,500
Georgian Gothic Breakfront Bookcase
Located in San Francisco, CA
A nice George III period mahogany gothic breakfront book case made in England about 200 years ago.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Bookcases
Materials
Wood, Glass
American Monumental Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Hudson, NY
Monumental breakfront, attributed to Joseph Meeks & Son an American furnituremaker, is beautifully
Category
Antique 19th Century American Bookcases
Materials
Oak
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Breakfront Bookcase For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal breakfront bookcase for your home. A breakfront bookcase — often made from wood, mahogany and glass — can elevate any home. Find 1485 options for an antique or vintage breakfront bookcase now, or shop our selection of 19 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect breakfront bookcase — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. A breakfront bookcase made by Georgian designers — as well as those associated with Victorian — is very popular. A well-made breakfront bookcase has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Baker Furniture Company, Henredon and Romweber Furniture Co. are consistently popular.
How Much is a Breakfront Bookcase?
A breakfront bookcase can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $7,789, while the lowest priced sells for $719 and the highest can go for as much as $459,302.
Finding the Right Bookcases for You
Whether you proudly shelve your books in regal mahogany or behind glass cabinet doors, an antique bookcase — or perhaps more than one — is essential to creating a cozy nook for any book lover.
As long as curious people have collected stories, we have needed a place to stow them away and preserve them. When auction houses and book dealers proliferated by the late 17th century, the bibliophile was born. And, of course, as with any treasured decorative objects or collectibles, a book lover’s volumes were suddenly worthy of a luxurious display — enter the bookcase.
Americans of means during the 19th century took to amassing art as well as rare books, and bookcases of the era — rife with hand-carved decorative accents and architectural motifs — were ideal for displaying their handsome leather-bound wares.
Although our favorite titles may change over the years, the functionality and beauty of their home within our home is timeless. Even those who don’t covet the perfect home library can benefit from an attractive display case, as bookcases can easily double as charming étagères.
Contemporary and customizable options make it easier for you to find the perfect bookcase for your style and stacks. If you don’t wish to fill your storage piece so that your collection is snug within its confines, incorporate extra space to allow for additional displays and decorative objects. And by introducing a striking dark wood Art Deco bookcase or low-profile mid-century modern design by Paul McCobb into your living room, your signed first editions won’t be the only items making a statement.
Find barrister bookcases, Globe Wernicke bookcases, bookcases with doors and other vintage and antique bookcases on 1stDibs now.
Questions About Breakfront Bookcase
- What is a breakfront bookcase?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021A breakfront bookcase is usually a large wooden bookcase that houses either books or dishes. They’re similar in appearance to hutches in that they have glass-fronted shelving on the top and cabinets on the bottom.
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