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1825WRCAM56380Greenfield Ma 1825. 108pp. Publisher's advertisements on rear board. 16mo. Original printed paper-covered boards. Moderate staining to boards minor chipping to spine ends minor edge wear. Moderate scattered foxing. Very good and wholly unsophisticated. Untrimmed. The first American printing of the first American furniture finisher's manual reprinted from the original British edition by G.A. Siddons. "A new edition with considerable additions. Including an appendix containing several valuable tables." Clear and concise instructions are given for dying and staining woods making glue making and applying varnish polishing japanning cleaning woods and metals and much more. For example to make furniture oil "Take linseed oil put it in a glazed pipkin with as much alkanet root as it will cover; let it boil gently and you will find it become of a strong red color: let it cool and it will be fit for use." Six tables in the appendix provide assistance for figuring lengths and weights and an index follows. <br> <br> Western Massachusetts was obviously a place of great architectural and design innovation during the American Federal period as both the present title and Asher Benjamin's landmark architecture book THE COUNTRY BUILDER'S ASSISTANT. were printed in Greenfield. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Highly desirable and a landmark in American crafts. RINK 1793. hardcover books
1857WRCAM28019Baltimore: John D. Troy 1857. 29pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight foxing. Very good. "Being the entire Furniture and Fixtures contained in the Dwelling of Mr. William Key Howard." Administered by F.W. Bennett & Company. Early auction catalogues such as this are rare even more so in this condition. Items of note include a lavish engraving of "Washington Crossing the Delaware." John D. Troy unknown books
1816315888Paris: Hamelin-Bergeron 1816. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Contemporary quarter tan calf rubbed. Signed by the publisher opposite opposite title page of volume 1 and along title page margin as receipt of purchase for 60 fr. Text and plates clean and fresh. Atlas vol. rebacked preserving spine. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Second edition of the definitive contemporary work on the lathe originally published in 1792-96. The illustrations show wood turning machinery and tools finished products and hand-colored depictions of 72 varieties of wood grain. Brunet I-785; Ogden Bibliography of Turning item 27 Hamelin-Bergeron unknown books
1830315876Birmingham 1830. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Quarter brown leather and boards with the same printed index B-W on front and back pastedowns. worn. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Rare engraved early nineteenth century brassfounder's trade catalogue with the manufacturer's name given usually not noted in such a work. While the actual catalogue appears to be ca. 1820-1830 some of the actual copper plates would appear to have been engraved somewhat earlier ca. 1800-1810<br/><br/>Plates present :<br/>111 17 19 26 29 31 33 37. 39 41 47 59 65 66 74 75 7980 84 86 90 9899 101 102 105111 112 116 117 118 125 128 129 130 131 132 134 136 137 138 140 141 142 143 145 147 149 152 163-190 192-196 199-203 205-222 224 226 227 230 230A 231 232 234 235 240 241 242 242A 243-248 248A 249 250 253 254-265 267-278. unknown books
1900631131900. FURNITURE. ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE mainly designed by Chippendale Sheraton Adam and others of the Georgian Period. One hundred plates illustrating three hundred and forty-eight examples. Boston: Bates & Guild Company 1900. 10 pp. text 100 plates. 14 by 10 3/4 inches. A few plates are dust-soiled and a few have pencil notations. Plates and text are housed loose as issued in a worn and soiled publisher's cloth portfolio which is at one edge. This is a good and serviceable reference. unknown books
1900434761900. FURNITURE. ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE mainly designed by Chippendale Sheraton Adam and others of the Georgian period. Boston: Bates and guild Co. 1900. Small beige cloth and buckram portfolio lettered in brown string ties. 100 black and white photographic plates loose as issued. Ex-lib. A very good copy with some soiling at the at the portfolio boards. Library stamp on plates though not affecting images. unknown books
1868WRCAM32817Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird 1868. 4pp. plus forty-eight engraved plates. Oblong octavo. Original green cloth gilt- stamped cover. Front hinge starting. Internally bright and clean. Very good. The third furniture pattern book published in America issued simultaneously with another Baird title GOTHIC ALBUM FOR FURNITURE MAKERS. It was preceded by books called THE CABINET-MAKER'S ASSISTANT published in 1840 and 1842. Depicted are a variety of bed stands bureaus wardrobes tables bookcases and more in a Renaissance Revival style. They are patterned after mid-19th- century French designs. All early American furniture books are rare. Henry Carey Baird hardcover books
