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Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England
An Outline for Collectors

by

R. W. Symonds

Hardcover. 4to. The Connoisseur, London, UK. 1955. 238 pgs. Illustrated with over 360 black & white plates, with a few in color. Signed by R W Symonds on the limitation page. #5 of a limited edition of 100 copies. 

Bound in 3/4 vellum and grey paper covered boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

A standard reference work on the furniture of the 17th and 18th centuries. 

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were significant regional differences in style, for example between the North Country and the West Country.

Salisbury and Norwich were prominent early centres of furniture production.

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