Furniture and Furnishing. A Simple and Complete Guide to House, Club, Hotel, Mansion, Flat, Cottage and Apartment Furnishing (+ Catalogue) An ORIGINAL Furniture and Accessories CATALOGUE for the Midland Furnishing Company Limited.

15, 17, 19, 21 & 23 Southampton Row, Holborn, London.: The Midland Furnishing Company Limited. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Presumed First UK Edition. Paperback. In brown paper-covered card covers. Titled on the front cover only in dark brown, with a Midland Furnishing Company Monogram on the bottom front corner, The covers are scruffy and stained and the whole book has been folded in half and therefore has a 'curve/fold' running through the whole book - but as it's just 'floppy' there is no damage. A little of the paper on the head and tail of the spine has been reglued. Some marks/scuffs/grubbiness to the page fore-edges, and a little light dampstaining to the blank edges of the first couple of pages, otherwise generally internally the book is clean and tight. NO date shown but from internal evidence of images, etc, I would think this could be any date from the turn of the century to 1920s, but I can't find out anything about this company, so...? A few pieces are showing evidence of an Art Nouveau influence, others look earlier? One of the most interesting things about this catalogue is that it starts, after a full colour frontispiece and Title, with 19 b/w full page illustrations of various Main rooms showing design and layout using the firm's Furniture and Accessories and then shows ALL the Pricing too on a separate page - ie: 'Drawing Room in £25 Flat' (the Total it would cost to furnish ALL rooms) : all the way up to a Dining Room, etc, in £445.17s. 6d Residence (then showing the Total it would cost to furnish ALL rooms in the Residence, including the Servant's Bedroom, The Kitchen, etc. - but no illustrations of these. ) This is a lovely piece of social history on it's own. (4) + 184pp. Illustrations in monotone throughout, but some suites of illustrations in full colour, and some others heightened in colour. Contents cover all furniture, and some accessories, needed in homes of this period, including an Upright and a Grand Piano. ALL with PRICES. This book weighs around the Kilo but will be heavier after packing as it will need 'stiff' packing so MAY require extra postage depending on your location. See Images. ; Oblong 4to 12" - 14" tall .