Item #27443 Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4). Charles James Richardson.
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)
Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)

Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate etc. (Complete 4 volume set, Series 1-4)

London: Thomas McLean, 1841, 1842, 1845, 1848. Hardcover. Each vol: green cloth, red leather spine, gilt lettering, decorative or illustrated title pages, tissue guards over each plate. Series (vol) 1: 24 plates (mostly two- or three-tones, 4 chromolithographs) + TP and dedication, with smaller-size explanation of plates bound in. Series 2: 12 highly decorative plates with text, followed by 23 illustrative plates (35 total), in two- or three-tones, and 2 chromolithographs). Series 3: 37 plates (two- or three-tones, with 1 chromolithograph) + TP and dedication page, complete according to desc. Series 4: 4: 37 plates, (with one 1 chromolithograph). G, tears in leather spines, some loss or partial separation on all but third volume. Cover wear, some damp stains to covers and some plates: Series 4 has some dampstaining at top edge affecting the image on one plate. Two private library labels on each volumes' spine, penciled cataloging numbers written on toc and some marks/labels inside covers. Images of plates clean with occasional margin smudging. Series 1 has small ink numbers at very top corner of plate leaf. Tape reinforcing on inner hinges, pages fragile at hinges. Binding sound; endpapers and some tissue guards have occasional tears or folds. Item #27443

Comprised completely of illustrations of English mansions, which includes engravings of exterior and interior views as well as architectural details; staircases, mouldings, ceilings, walls, doors, newel posts, and more.

Price: $350.00