Antique Furniture Periods Styles Types / In-Depth Book Collector Appraiser Guide

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637 black-and-white photographs highlight this book which is an indispensable reference for the appraiser, serious collector, dealer, or historian of antique furniture.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FURNITURE STYLES
by Louise Ade Boger, Waveland Press Inc., IL., 1959/1969/1997.
This scholarly text seeks to provide the practical knowledge a general reader would need in order to understand stylistic developments and changes of furniture from Italy, France, The Netherlands, Spain, England and America, as well as Chinese furniture of the Ming dynasty. “It has been the purpose to provide the student with the elemental knowledge required to understand the more specialized literature pertaining to the history of cabinetwork and to instill in the general reader and inquirer a genuine interest in historic cabinetwork through a more complete and sympathetic understanding of the people who designed it, made it, and used it.” Over 600 photographs support descriptions of furniture from every age from Classical Greece to the present. This comprehensive volume will replace many less thorough accounts and be a welcome addition to the permanent reference library of the novice or the expert in collectible antique furniture.
7” x 10” softback in very good condition. 500 pages.
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