Buy this book on-line WOOD,VIOLET: : VICTORIANA:A Collector's GuideLONDON.GEO BELL & SONS,1960.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG.Neat ink presentation inscrptn to ffe and price-clip to dw/dj.B/w photographic (Victorian room scene) upper wrap, publisher's adverts to rear wrap.Some light rubbing, minimal creasing and chipping with minimal
loss to bottom edges.Top edges similar but
with slightly more rubbing,creasing and chipping with minimal loss to head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges lightly aged,contents bright,tight and clean.
Bright, clean, publisher's original blue cloth bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,white eps apart
from some off-set foxing to front+rear pastedowns, from inner flaps of dw/dj.8vo,
7-175pp includes b/w line illus half-title,b/w line illustrated title-page, Ivor T. Idris (Hon. Treasurer of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and of The Victorian Society) foreword,author preface,contents+plates lists,32pp b/w photographic plates;all called for,profuse b/w line illustrations
throughout the text,registration marks, biblio and an index.
Victoriana is probably the most popular of the fields of antique collecting and dealing.There have been authoritative monographs on some categories of Victorian
antiques and a few general guides to the productions of the earlier part of the period,but there is little in the way of a general introduction to the work of the whole Victorian era.This book, in helping to meet that need, should find a very wide
public.The author has lived among Victoriana all her life, has collected it for forty years, and recently (then 1960) has become a noted dealer in it.Her book gains much from the experience and knowledge acquired in actually handling so
many of the objects described.Almost all the photographs have been taken specially for the book and have not been previously reproduced.The subjects covered include:
ceramics, furniture, glass, bric-a-brac, jewellery, needle-work, lace, shawls, bedspreads, metalwork, ships in bottles, candlesticks and lamps, shellwork, featherwork, etc.
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