[ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834), publisher. The Upholsterer's Repository. London: 1808-1809.] Small 4° (241 x 185mm). 26 hand-coloured engraved plates of furniture, and interior designs and decorations. (Very light spotting and browning.) Contemporary boards, original printed green label with engraved decorative border to upper cover with price of 1/4s (recently rebacked and recornered with leather). Provenance: Spokes (20th-century ink signature).
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[ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834), publisher. The Upholsterer's Repository. London: 1808-1809.] Small 4° (241 x 185mm). 26 hand-coloured engraved plates of furniture, and interior designs and decorations. (Very light spotting and browning.) Contemporary boards, original printed green label with engraved decorative border to upper cover with price of 1/4s (recently rebacked and recornered with leather). Provenance: Spokes (20th-century ink signature).

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[ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834), publisher. The Upholsterer's Repository. London: 1808-1809.] Small 4° (241 x 185mm). 26 hand-coloured engraved plates of furniture, and interior designs and decorations. (Very light spotting and browning.) Contemporary boards, original printed green label with engraved decorative border to upper cover with price of 1/4s (recently rebacked and recornered with leather). Provenance: Spokes (20th-century ink signature).

The plates are extracted from Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, and were evidently sold separately. No title-page seems to have been issued. The New York Public Library has a similar publication, but with only 15 plates. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

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