symonds preface (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Ed. 80pp, octavo hardcover in black cloth. mild wear to book edges, binding solid and strong, interior text and images clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good, Price Clipped. 24 page introduction 'Rococo in the English Handicrafts' in English and French, 80 pages of black and white plates from The Director. Bibliography of eighteenth century works on English rococo design. Hb in price-clipped dw, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. Reprint. 24pp followed by 80 black-and-white plates; with both English and French title-pages and text. Hardback / hard cover: black cloth, backstrip titled in white. Upper outer corners of covers bumped, slightly affecting corresponding corners of contents mainly in plates section. Fore-edge of text-block lightly & very sparsely spotted. VERY GOOD copy in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket.

24pp of text in English and French, 80 bw line drawings. 25x16, black cloth, no dw. Slight rubbing to edges of cloth, contents good, owner's signature to fep. Facsimile extract from Chippendale's catalogue of his furniture designs; the images are taken from the 1762 third edition.

24pp of text in English and French, 80 bw line drawings. 25x16, black cloth, no dw. Good, owners' names on fep. Facsimile extract from Chippendale's catalogue of his furniture designs; the images are taken from the 1762 third edition.

24pp of text in English and French, 80 bw line drawings. 25x16, black cloth, no dw. Slight rubbing to edges of cloth, contents very good, neat book plate on fep. Facsimile extract from Chippendale's catalogue of his furniture designs; the images are taken from the 1762 third edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Jacket after Chippendale Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First published in 1948, this is a second impression of 1950. Edge wear, chipping, creasing, short closed tears and some loss to top and bottom of largely black jacket and spine, folds rubbed, corners slightly bruised and rubbed, not price clipped (10s 6d), small previous owner's name to top ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 80pp, illustrated. This book contains a vast array of illustrated designs coupled with descriptions, uses, and any other information of note. Invaluable to all Chippendale collectors. The editor and writer of the Preface Robert Wemyss Symonds (1889-1958), was a British architect, and "the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture". His complicated love life, before he married respectably, included affairs with two women, the first of which produced children he never acknowledged, and the second with a woman who he discovered was already married and who was subsequently jailed for perjury in her divorce case.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Some wear to top & bottom of dustjacket; owner's name inside front cover.

Condición: Good. Envoi rapide Bon état intérieur propre jaquette défraîchie bords frottés. in8. 1949. Cartonné. textes en français et anglais --- illustrations en noir et blanc. Good.