SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT FURNITURE DRAWN FROM EXISTING AUTHORITIES
by Shaw, Henry
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Plates fine and wide-margined, covers worn, many of the pages have popped loose
- Seller
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Paris, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Pickering, 1836. First edition. Plates fine and wide-margined, covers worn, many of the pages have popped loose. First edition. Folio. [viii], 57p. Illustrated with 74 full-page lithographed plates, including about ten in color (one double page) and others in fewer colors, black and white or sepia. Bound with leather spine gilt and paper-covered boards.
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- First Folio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16312
- Title
- SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT FURNITURE DRAWN FROM EXISTING AUTHORITIES
- Author
- Shaw, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used - Plates fine and wide-margined, covers worn, many of the pages have popped loose
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Pickering
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1836
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY;
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