Interior Decoration, Its Principles and Practice by Frank Alvah Parsons - 1915

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1916. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Black hardback with gold print (faded) on spine. Front board has fraying/bumping along edges. Top of front board has a bend/break in it but has not broken the navy blue cover. Browning to inside endpapers from newspaper article previously laid in. Pages tight but book will lay open and it appears back pages from page 241 must have come detached from book at page 240 and they have been taped in. Pages clean/unmarked except fro PO's name on ffep. Not stated 1st edition but no other print info stated. Interior of book is much better than Fair condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good, clean, tight text; some bw plates have smudging and age toning to margins. Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks.. Dark green buckram; gilt lettering. xiv + 284 pp. with bw images throughout. A classic on the subject, written by Frank Parsons, for whom the Parsons School of Design is named (formerly the New York School of Fine and Applied Art). With excellent examples of stylish vs. undesirable decoration principles.

New York: Doubleday & Co Spine worn with chipping, rubbing and bumping. Split. Boards in good shape, some mild marks to front and rear PDs, CE uncut. PP clean and tidy.. Cloth Boards. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.