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How To Build, Furnish And Decorate; Consisting Of Elevations and Plans For Houses, Barns, And Every Description Of Outbuilding, Accompanied With Clear And Concise instructions: Also, A Complete Treatise On House Furnishings And Decoration
by Shoppell, R.W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Cooperative Building Plan Association, Architects, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good. 3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher by presenting the aforementioned number. An extremely valuable and well illustrated treatise. Chapters on furniture and decoration; hall and staircase; dining room; drawing room; bedrooms; library; kitchen; hints to purchasers of furniture; wall and ceiling papers; glass for home decoration; how to hang pictures; needlework in decoration; the piano; stenciling and gilding; about the use of colors; carpets; screens; over mantels and over doors; the decoration of doors; rustic work; warming the house and practical miscellany. The illustrations include numerous fully furnished room interiors. HITCHCOCK 1171. Wear to backstrip foot, and lower corners, nick to front cover joint.
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- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24158
- Title
- How To Build, Furnish And Decorate; Consisting Of Elevations and Plans For Houses, Barns, And Every Description Of Outbuilding, Accompanied With Clear And Concise instructions: Also, A Complete Treatise On House Furnishings And Decoration
- Author
- Shoppell, R.W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Cooperative Building Plan Association, Architects
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1883
- Keywords
- American Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; American Art; Victorian; Design;
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ardsley, New York
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