"The examples are carefully drawn to a large size ... well selected and very well executed."—The Builder.
PROGRESSIVE STUDIES AND DESIGNS FOR WOOD-CARVERS. By Miss E. R. Plowden. With a Preface by Miss Rowe. Consisting of five large folding sheets of Illustrations (drawn full size), of a variety of objects suitable for Wood Carving. With descriptive text. Second Edition, enlarged. 4to, in portfolio. Price 5s. net.
ANCIENT WOOD AND IRONWORK IN CAMBRIDGE.—By W. B. Redfarn, the Letterpress by John Willis Clark. 29 folio Lithographed Plates drawn to a good scale. Cloth gilt, a handsome volume, price 10s. 6d., net 8s. 6d.
This Work, giving an interesting and useful series of Examples, is but little known. Very few copies remain.
HEPPLEWHITE'S CABINET-MAKER AND UPHOLSTERER'S GUIDE; or Repository of Designs for every article of Household Furniture in the newest and most approved taste. A complete facsimile reproduction of this rare work, containing nearly 300 charming Designs on 128 Plates. Small folio, bound in speckled cloth, gilt, old style, price £2 10s. net. (1794.) Original copies when met with fetch from £17 to £18.
"A beautiful replica, which every admirer of the author and period should possess."—Building News.
CHIPPENDALE'S THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET-MAKER'S DIRECTOR.—A complete facsimile of the 3rd and rarest Edition, containing 200 Plates of Designs of Chairs, Sofas, Beds and Couches, Tables, Library Book Cases, Clock Cases, Stove Grates, &c., &c. Folio, strongly bound in half-cloth, price £3 15s. net. (1762.)
SHERATON'S CABINET-MAKER And UPHOLSTERER'S DRAWING-BOOK.—A complete Facsimile Reproduction of the scarce Third Edition. With the rare Appendix and Accompaniment complete. Containing in all 434 pages and 122 Plates. 4to, cloth, price £2 10s. net.
EXAMPLES OF OLD FURNITURE, English and Foreign. Drawn and described by Alfred Ernest Chancellor. Containing 40 Photo-lithographic Plates exhibiting some 100 examples of Elizabethan, Stuart, Queen Anne, Georgian and Chippendale furniture; and an interesting variety of Continental work. With historical and descriptive notes. Large 4to, gilt, price £1 5s., net £1 1s.
"In publishing his admirable collection of drawings of old furniture, Mr. Chancellor secures the gratitude of all admirers of the consummate craftsmanship of the past. His examples are selected from a variety of sources with fine discrimination, all having an expression and individuality of their own—qualities that are so conspicuously lacking in the furniture of our own day. It forms a very acceptable work."—The Morning Post.