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A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR ORNAMENTAL DECORATION: A Collection of Designs & Colour Schemes For Painters' & Decorators' Work
by Mitchell, F. Scott
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Thos. Parsons & Sons, 1908. First edition. Trade catalogue in original publisher's hard cover. Published London: Thos. Parsons & Sons, 1908, 8vo., 5 3/4" x 8 1/2", 130pp., illustrated with full color and b/w plates and four leaves of color samples for Parsons paints. Green cloth with gilt stamped cover design and titles. Thomas Parsons were manufacturers of varnishes, Japans, enamels and fine colors, who began trade in the eighteenth century. Wear at the tips and spine ends, else very good. Rubber stamp of trade distributor Peerless Dennis & Co., Eastbourne on title page, front pastedown and verso of plates. Scarce in first edition. Only 11 copies in WorldCat. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010209
- Title
- A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR ORNAMENTAL DECORATION: A Collection of Designs & Colour Schemes For Painters' & Decorators' Work
- Author
- Mitchell, F. Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Thos. Parsons & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Architecture & Design;
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