Antique English Furniture Woodwork - Period Design Elements / Scarce Book

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A GUIDE TO COLLECTORS. ENGLISH FURNITURE, DECORATION, WOODWORK AND ALLIED ARTS - During the Last Half of the Seventeenth Century, the Whole of the Eighteenth Century, and the Earlier Part of the Nineteenth Century
by Thomas Arthur Strange, Bracken Books, London, 1995.
Over 3,500 detailed line drawings, reproduced advertising listings, and black-and-white half tones detail late 17th century through early nineteenth century English furniture.  There is an in-depth list of architects, designers, and authors, whose works are illustrated in this book.  “This was of course the period of the great cabinetmakers: Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Thomas Hope, and Ince and Mayhew; of decorators and architects such as Wren, Robert and James Adam, Grinling Gibbons, Sir William Chambers, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, and Kent; of outstanding craftsmen such as Tijou, Angelica Kaufman, Verrio, Zucchi, and Bartolozzi; and of a host of minor figures whose names – Crunden, Columbani, the Pains, or Pergolesi – may not always be familiar but whose work was marked by a refinement common to this extraordinary epoch.”      This book is an invaluable reference for the collector, dealer, or museum curator of Antique English furniture and decorative design.
8.7” x 11.2” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  368 pages.
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