The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Most Approved Taste...
by HEPPLEWHITE, A
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New York: Towse Publishing Company / The Furniture World, 1942. Hardcover. Edited by N.I. Bienenstock. Folio. Brilliant blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. (Ca. 200pp), 88pp pictorial advertisements. Extensive full-page illustrations and diagrams. Near fine/near fine. Unusually clean, bright jacket. This superb first trade edition is a facsimile reprint of the rare 1789 first edition (London) of this classic, to which is added a "Supplement: A Gallery of Hepplewhite Furniture and a Sketch of Hepplewhite's Life and Works" by Walter Rendell Storey. Front flyleaf bears a huge, bold inscription and signature in blue ballpoint: "To Jim / with best wishes / Sincerely / Sandy." Nathan I. " Sandy" Bienenstock (1902-88) was publisher of "Furniture World" magazine; he began collecting furniture books in 1922 and in 1970 he and wife Bernice founded the Bienenstock Furniture Library in High Point, North Carolina. Great copy and with the usually-absent jacket present and exceptional. Along with Thomas Chippendale and Thomas Sheraton, George Hepplewhite (1727-86) was one of the "big three" of English furniture makers and his style dominated in the latter 18th century; his widow Alice compiled and published this book that cemented his reputation.
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- Title
- The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Most Approved Taste...
- Author
- HEPPLEWHITE, A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- Towse Publishing Company / The Furniture World
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
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