John Thomas Seymour Cabinet Makers in Boston 1794-1816 with Supplement

Regency Furniture Designs (from Contemporary Source books) 1803-1826 by John Harris. Published by London / Alec Tiranti, 1961. 1st Ed hardcover with slipca...

Cabinet Makers and Furniture Designers by Hugh Honour. Feltham: The Hamlyn Publishing Group, Limited, 1972. Second edition, re-released hardcover with dust jacket. 320 pp. A book on cabinet makers and furniture designers with 50 fascinating studies of furniture from the 16th c to the 20th c. It includes French, English, American, Dutch, German and Scandinavian craftsmen. Some of the artisans represented are Thomas Chippendale, Duncan Phyfe, Pelagio Palagi...

The story of American Furniture by Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee. New York: The Macmillion Company, 1941. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A comprehensive resource book on America antique furniture...

Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library 17th-19th Centuries, 2 Vol Set with Slip Case, 1st Ed. Published in NY by Pierpont Morgan Library, 2006. Ranging from preparatory studi...

This is an antique carpentry book. An English language, bound reference guide by Peter Nicholson, dating to the Victorian period, published 1846. Fu...

RARE, LIMITED TO 5 COPIES, SIGNED BY ROGERS, EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY. New Southgate: John Bale and Sons for H.A. Rogers, 1887. Extra Illustrated Limited Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, 9 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (225 x 140mm) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the limitation page "Five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale. S. A. Rogers, 1887." EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 150 engraved, etched and lithographic 18th- and 19th-century portraits and views by various artists after Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and others, 10-page MANUSCRIPT INDEX of illustrations bound in at the end of volume II. Where captions are not included in the plate, they are neatly hand-written on the page margin in ink. Contemporary straight-grained tan morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers with gilt floral designs, the stems and leaves outlined in gilt, the flowers depicted with dark brown morocco inlays, the border of 4 gilt fillets with stepped corners enclosed within an outer single gilt fillet, the spines gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in gilt in 2 and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with fleurons surrounded by foliate cornerpieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed; extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive small marks on spines; occasional light foxing and offsetting. Provenance: F.E. Dinshaw (armorial bookplates and pressmark labels); William Robinson (bookplates bound in after front free endpapers), and W.A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey library bookplate in red morocco pasted into front cover, in both volumes. AN EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF TABLE-TALK, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY AND LIMITED TO FIVE COPIES, inscribed on the verso of volume I half-title: 'five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale H.A. Rogers. 1887'. The 145 portraits depict a broad range of the poet Samuel Rogers' contemporaries, friends and literary influences, and include Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sydney Smith...

2 Volumes, Thomas Archer, Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History. Bound in the publisher's pezux binding in full red morocco with the covers displa...

A fine limited edition of the works of the Earl of Rochester, in a sumptuous full crushed morocco binding by Bayntun Riviere. Number 285 of a 1050 copy limitation. In a beautiful c...