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George Smith : Smith’s Cabinet-Maker’s & Upholsterer’s Guide, Drawing Book, and Repository of New and Original Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration in the Most Approved and Modern Taste; Including Specimens of the Egyptian, Grecian, Gothic, Arabesque, French, English, and Other Schools of the Art; by George Smith. Upholsterer and Furniture Draughtsman to His Majesty. / The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide: Being a Complete Drawing Book; in which Will Be Comprised Treatises on Geometry and Perspective… Numerous Engravings. To Which is Added, a Complete Series of New and Original Designs for Household Furniture, and Interior Decoration

Jones & Co., London, c. 1828.

Contemporary gilt ½ calf with marble boards, expertly rebacked in six compartments of raised bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt green calf label on two, gilt text on six, endpapers marbled., Top margin of engraved title shaved closely with some loss to first line; occasional minor browning in upper foreedge, otherwise in very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp., 4to., P. (8), blank, frontis, engraved title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, introduction iii-viii, 1-219, directions to binder, (6)., Complete according to its own index, with 154 plates (including the frontispiece and the engraved title), of which 38 are hand-coloured, all detailing various aspects of classic European interior design and furniture.

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