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Furniture Decoration Made Easy; A practical work manual for decorating furniture by stenciling, gold-leaf application and freehand painting
by Charles Hallett
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From the dust jacket back: A Manual which teaches you how to....
- Restore an old piece of furniture from start to finish
- Finish a fresh, unpainted piece of reproduction furniture and make it look authentic
- Copy any actual-size pattern from this book and apply it directly to your project
- Work easily with stencil powders and achieve professional effects with gold leaf
- Work like an efficient decorator instead of a groping amateur
Book - Very Good condition. Green cloth cover with gold text in spine. There is a little wear at corners and spine, but minimal wear on the rest of the edges. Light age discoloration on page edges. Text is clean. Binding is tight.
Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Full size pattern on inside of dust jacket. Color is pretty good, but there is rubbing and bumping and much edge/corner wear with tears and chips.
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146 pages including Index.
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- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1679
- Title
- Furniture Decoration Made Easy; A practical work manual for decorating furniture by stenciling, gold-leaf application and freehand painting
- Author
- Charles Hallett
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles T. Branford Co., Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1656
- Pages
- 146
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- furniture restoration, furniture finishing, reproduction furniture, pattern book, stencil powders, gold leaf
- Bookseller catalogs
- How To; Reference - Collectors; Antiques;
Terms of Sale
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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About the Seller
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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Independence, Missouri
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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