By Robert W. Edis
London   C. Kegan Paul & Co.
8.5" by 6.5" xvi, 292pp.
A beautifully illustrated first edition on this guide to interior design.
By Robert W. Edis

1881 Decoration & Furniture of Town Houses

London   C. Kegan Paul & Co.
8.5" by 6.5" xvi, 292pp.
A beautifully illustrated first edition on this guide to interior design.
Sold
: 1kgs / : 856T19

What Our Customers Say...

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First edition. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and twenty-eight plates. Collated complete. A guide to the interior design of town houses, with specific reference to floor, wall, and ceiling decoration, furniture, and domestic articles across specific rooms or areas of the home. Written by Colonel Sir Robert William Edis, a British architect. Bound by Burn & Co. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the ‘Journal of Architecture’.

Condition

In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Contemporary inscriptions to the front endpaper. Bound by Burn & Co.

Very Good Indeed

Delivery & payment

We send all of our books via courier which is a fully tracked and insured service. In our experience we find this to be the most reliable and quickest form of delivery. Our primary courier is DHL, but we are able to accommodate special requests if required, including postal delivery for items under 2kg. See More Details