Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1974. Undetermined. very good. 2nd printing. xii,399pp. Quarto. Original purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine; minor shelf wear to crown and foot. Pictoral dust jacket, unclipped; chips to crown and foot, several small closed tears to edges of panels, some rubbing and creasing to same. Illustrated with B/W photographs in text. Textblock slightly age toned at edges, otherwise a clean copy; photographs bright. very good Guide to the furniture made in Ontario until 1860. The author describes over 600 items with an accompanying photograph. An authority for any collecting enthusiast. 1974

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Bookseller: Aquila Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 132052
Title: The Furniture of Old Ontario
Author: Shackleton, Philip
Format/Binding: Undetermined
Book Condition: Used - very good
Quantity Available: 2
Publisher: MacMillan of Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: Furniture|Collectibles|Antiques|Collecting|Colonial Period|Ontario
Bookseller catalogs: Hobbies and Collecting;

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...

The Furniture of Old Ontario

The Furniture of Old Ontario