Smith’s Cabinet-Maker’s & Upholsterer’s Guide, Drawing Book, and Repository of New and Original Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration in the Most Approved and Modern Taste; Including Specimens of the Egyptian, Grecian, Gothic, Arabesque, French, English, and Other Schools of the Art; by George Smith. Upholsterer and Furniture Draughtsman to His Majesty. / The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide: Being a Complete Drawing Book; in which Will Be Comprised Treatises on Geometry and Perspective… Numerous Engravings. To Which is Added, a Complete Series of New and Original Designs for Household Furniture, and Interior Decoration.
London: Jones & Co., c. 1828. Binding: Contemporary gilt ½ calf with marble boards, expertly rebacked in six compartments of raised bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt green calf label on two, gilt text on six, endpapers marbled., Size: 4to., Illustration: Complete according to its own index, with 154 plates (including the frontispiece and the engraved title), of which 38 are hand-coloured, all detailing various aspects of classic European interior design and furniture., Pages: P. (8), blank, frontis, engraved title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, introduction iii-viii, 1-219, directions to binder, (6)., Category: Book Plate Books Colour; Book Art, Architecture & Design;. Top margin of engraved title shaved closely with some loss to first line; occasional minor browning in upper foreedge, otherwise in very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp. Item #B3561
Binding: Contemporary gilt ½ calf with marble boards, expertly rebacked in six compartments of raised bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt green calf label on two, gilt text on six, endpapers marbled., Size: 4to., Illustration: Complete according to its own index, with 154 plates (including the frontispiece and the engraved title), of which 38 are hand-coloured, all detailing various aspects of classic European interior design and furniture., Pages: P. (8), blank, frontis, engraved title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, introduction iii-viii, 1-219, directions to binder, (6)., Category: Book Plate Books Colour; Book Art, Architecture & Design;.
Price: $2,750.00