ABC/124 - History of English furniture. The age of walnut.

ABC/124

History of English furniture. The age of walnut.

1 volume

A History of English Furniture by Percy Macquoid, with plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author. The main aim of this volume is to talk about the history, development and evolution of English furniture and the foreign influences that contributed to them. The subject has been divided into four periods. The first, dating from 1500 to 1600, comprising furniture that can be attributed to the Renaissance and its evolution from the Gothic, termed as 'The Age of Oak'. The second, from 1660 to 1720, where the change is varied by the Restoration and Dutch influence, followed by an English spirit, called 'The Age of Walnut'. The third period, lasting from 1720 to 11770, with French influences, called 'The Age of Mahogany'; and the fourth, from1770 to 1820; inspired by a combination of all things classical, combined with a curiously unbalanced taste, described as 'The Composite Age'. The colour plates depict: Two Chairs; Upholstered Bed; Upholstered Chair; Chest of Drawers inlaid with Marqueterie; Walnut Cabinet inlaid with Marqueterie; Settee; Table inlaid with Marqueterie; Cabinet-Press inlaid with Marqueterie; Chest of Drawers inlaid with Marqueterie; Lacquer Cabinet; Clock inlaid with Light Marqueterie; Clock inlaid with Dark Marqueterie; Walnut Chair inlaid with Marqueterie; Mirror; Upholstered Bed; Walnut Chair covered with Needlework; Walnut Settee inlaid with Marqueterie; Walnut inlaid with Writing-Cabinet. The other illustrations depict: Walnut Child's Chair; Walnut Chairs; Walnut Day-Bed; Oak Bird-Cage; Oak China Cupboard; Walnut and Laburnum Cabinet; Upholstered Beds; Alcove with Walnut Chairs-Gilt; Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Fringes; Walnut Tables; Laquer Table; Walnut Side-Table; Top of a Walnut Table inlaid with Marquetere; Walnut inlaid Chest of Drawers; Walnut inlaid Clocks; Walnut and Marquetere Lace Box; Ebony and Marquetere Cabinet; Walnut Seats; Walnut Stools; Walnut Settee; Top of Silver Table; Set of Silver Furniture; Set of Silver-Mounted Fire-Irons; Silver Fire-Pan; Maple-Wood Table; Carved Lime-Wood Mirror; Gilt Mirror; Ebony Mirror; Marquetere Mirror; Flower of the 'Garrya Eliptica'; Walnut Game Tables; Walnut and Holly Game Table Top; Oak Bookcase; Walnut inlaid Writing-Table; Walnut inlaid Cabinet; Walnut inlaid Knee-Hole Writing-Table; Laquer Cabinet and Stand; Lacquer Cabinet on Gilt Stand; Lacquer Double Chest of Drawers; Lacquer Linen Chest; Walnut inlaid Clocks; Walnut Writing-Tables; Walnut Dressing-Table; Walnut an Yew Dressing-Table; Walnut Looking-Glass; Walnut Side-Tables; Walnut Baby-Trotter; Upholstered Beds; Walnut Writing-Chairs; Mahogany Upholstered Chair; Walnut Upholstered Day-Bed; Mahogany Upholstered Sofa; Mahogany Upholstered Love-Seats; Walnut Tall-Boys Chest of Drawers; Walnut Card-Table; Walnut Table with Sycamore Top; Cabinet of Laquer Stand; Gilt Gueridon.

Slightly scuffed covers, Spine almost loose, some loose and torn pages