Antique American European Furniture Styles / Scarce Illustrated Book

Description

Profusely illustrated with over 1,100 black-and-white photographs, this early out of print book is a definitive guide to the identification of antique European and American furniture.
A DIRECTORY OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE:  The Authentic Classification of European & American Designs for Professionals and Connoisseurs
by F. Lewis Hinckley, Bonanza Books, N.Y., 1953.
This book “provides a thoroughly reliable Register of Standards of Authentic Design for all types of antique furniture, European and American.  The more than 1,100 examples shown are classified precisely and beyond dispute as to period and provenance.  In effect, these pieces, shown in large photographs with details clearly defined, serve as hallmarks and aid the reader in verifying and identifying almost any piece of antique furniture.  As a result, many pieces of uncertain period and origin can be identified definitely because of their similarity and relationship to the pieces shown in the book.  And identifications already made can be confirmed or proved erroneous in the same way.”  Here, indeed, is a pictorial guide with 1,103 halftone black and white photos - an essential book for the permanent reference library of any collector, dealer, historian, curator, or appraiser of antique European and American furniture.
8.5” x 11” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  355 pages.
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