The Art of the House by Watson, Rosamund Marriott - 1897

George Bell and Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1897. No Edition Remarks. 185 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with decorations. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to first and last few pages. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and title page. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends causing fraying to cloth. Wear marks overall.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

New.

George Bell And Sons, 1897. 1st. Hardback. Good. First edition hardback in the Connoisseur Series, 1897, with no jacket as issued. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - orange cloth boards rubbed to edges and spine darkened, two small grazes to front cover. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; page-ends darkened with slight foxing here and there but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. A scarce first edition guide to interior design in the late Victorian period, illustrated throughout. The scarce first edition of this work, with vignette illustrations and eight collotype plates, all retaining captioned tissue guards. Collated, complete. This is the work of English poet, nature writer and critic Rosamund Marriott Watson, who early in her career wrote under the pseudonyms Graham R. Tomson and Rushworth Armytage. Watson also wrote several columns on interior design and fashion—her first-ever publication, in 1883, was a column on 'modern' fashion for the Fortnightly Review, as well as contributing further articles on the subject to the Pall Mall Gazette.These columns are collected in this work, providing the reader with an informative account of late Victorian attitudes to interior design. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to extremities and spine head and tail. Some fading… Read More