Percy MACQUOID and Ralph EDWARDS. The Dictionary of English Furniture. London: Country Life Limited, 1954. 3 volumes, folio (378 x 250mm). Monochrome and colour plates. Original red cloth, spines and upper covers titled in gilt (cockling to spine of vol III, light wear to spines at foot). Second, revised edition, enlarged by Edwards.
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Percy MACQUOID and Ralph EDWARDS. The Dictionary of English Furniture. London: Country Life Limited, 1954. 3 volumes, folio (378 x 250mm). Monochrome and colour plates. Original red cloth, spines and upper covers titled in gilt (cockling to spine of vol III, light wear to spines at foot). Second, revised edition, enlarged by Edwards.

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Percy MACQUOID and Ralph EDWARDS. The Dictionary of English Furniture. London: Country Life Limited, 1954. 3 volumes, folio (378 x 250mm). Monochrome and colour plates. Original red cloth, spines and upper covers titled in gilt (cockling to spine of vol III, light wear to spines at foot). Second, revised edition, enlarged by Edwards.

SYMONDS, Robert Wemyss. Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England. London: The Connoisseur, 1955. Folio (350 x 247mm). Title in red and black, monochrome plates. Original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket (dust jacket worn with loss at spine).

SYMONDS, Robert Wemyss. Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1940. Folio (323 x 250mm). Monochrome and colour plates. Original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket (dust jacket worn at extremities). Provenance: J. R. Abbey (armorial bookplate). One of a limited edition of 750 copies; and SYMONDS, R. W. Thomas Tompion, his life and work. Spring Books, 1969.

SYMONDS, Robert Wemyss. English Furniture from Charles II to George II. London: The Connoisseur Ltd, 1929. Folio (340 x 260mm). Title in red and black, monochrome plates, colour frontispiece. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover titled in gilt (spine faded, slight wear at head and foot). No. 827 of a limited edition of 1,000.

CESCINSKY, Herbert. English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century. London: The Waverley Book Company Limited [n.d., but 1909-1911]. 3 volumes (306 x 242mm). Half-green morocco (wear to joints and spines, one board detached). (6)
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