Is it Genuine? A Guide to the Identification of Eighteenth-Century English Furniture
New York City: Hart Publishing Company, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. Black cloth, red title plate with gilt letters on spine, woodgrained dust jacket, 188 pp., 86 BW illus. G+ (DJ has average edge wear, also has some foxing along top inside edge of dj; bookplate inside front cover, pages and illus. are good.). Item #149462
ISBN: 0805510419
"Will enable everyone -- dealer, collector, or antique browser -- to determine the authenticity of a piece of purported 18th Century furniture. The author reminds us that at the end of the 18th Century there were probably no more than twelve and one-half million people in Great Britain, and that at most there were two million families. Of these, only a very small percentage could have afforded the prices charged by the master craftsmen of that fabulous age: Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite. If this is so, where did the thousands of 'existing' pieces of authentic antiques come from? Clearly these must have been cleverly reproduced. By what methods? The author's chapter, 'How to Make an Antique,' renders this shockingly clear." (dj).
Price: $38.00