English, American & European Furniture
7 Beautiful Old Books From Yesteryear All On One CD!
1. Colonial Furniture In America Luke Vincent Lockwood 1901 (430 pages)
This is a truly wonderful book with at least 150 illustrations and it covers furniture designs over a few hundred years. First class!
"THE object of the present volume is to furnish the
collector, and other persons interested in the subject
of American colonial furniture, with a trustworthy
handbook on the subject, having especially in mind the
natural development of the various styles, and arranging
them in such a way as to enable any one at a glance to
determine under what general style and date a piece of
furniture falls.
The sources of information from which this book has
been derived are: examination of inventories and contemporary
records, all available newspapers, works on the subjects
of furniture, architecture, and interior woodwork by
English, French, German, Italian, and American writers,
general and commercial histories, books on manners and
customs, ancient dictionaries, cabinet-makers' books of design
ancient and modern, and examination of specimens of furniture, both colonial and foreign."
2. Early English Furniture & Woodwork Vol 1 Herbert Cescinsky 1897 (420 pages)
 "IN the attempt to write a history of English furniture and woodwork
showing its development in an orderly progression, one is confronted
by an initial difficulty ; where to begin. Of woodwork prior to the
fourteenth century we know very little, and of furniture practically
nothing. Even if isolated specimens, for illustration, were available,—
which is not the case,—they would be useless for our present purpose. I have pointed
out, in other books on the subject, that an account of the evolution of furniture types,—
especially when an attempt is made to date examples,—must be a chronicle of the
fashions which prevailed at various periods. A solitary piece which has survived from
very early times may, or may not, be indicative of the fashions of its time ; we cannot
know unless we can produce others of corresponding date and type, which establish
the fact. We must always bear in mind also the possibility of a later copy of an earlier
original."
3. Early English Furniture & Woodwork Vol 2 Herbert Cescinsky Early 1900's (252 pages)
"THE chest or coffer was a most important article of furniture, especially
during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, both in houses and
monastic establishments. Some idea has already been given of the
wealth, in carved and decorated woodwork, which must have been
general even in small parish churches, until the first quarter of the
sixteenth century. Enough has persisted to our day to give some vague idea of the
amount and richness which must have been stored in these churches throughout the
length and breadth of England. What has not survived are the treasures in the way of
vestments, altar-cloths, jewels and ornaments of gold, silver and enamel, in chalice,
paten, altar candlesticks and the like, as these were the prey of the despoiler long ago.
Many accounts have been preserved of the wholesale destruction by fire of copes, vestments,
banners and altar-cloths."
4. French & English Furniture Esther Singleton 1903 (690 pages)
"THE purpose of this work is to provide all
who are interested in French and English furniture since the Renaissance period
with a comprehensive and detailed
view of the various periods or styles. A
chapter is devoted to each period, and the
chapters naturally vary in size, in accordance with the importance
and length of the different periods. Sofar as I have
been able to discover in my researches, there is no work precisely
of the same aim and scope as this one in existence."
5. Old English Furniture Frederick Fenn (272 pages)
Loads of great plates in this book of beautiful English Oak furniture.
"WHEN I first began, in a small
way, to collect a few pieces of
old English furniture, the present
craze was almost in its
infancy. There were, of course,
a host of distinguished collectors, but the
vast army of small bargain hunters had not
sprung into being. Most people were then
content to furnish according to the housefurnisher's
taste, and you did not hear every
couple setting up housekeeping chatter about
old oak and Chippendale."
6. Style In Furniture R Davis Benn 1912 (568 pages)
"The following pages have been written with two distinct
aims in view. In the first place, it has been my endeavour
to treat my subject in such a vein as to render the text
interesting to those who may wish to acquire sufficiently
accurate knowledge of old English and some French furniture
in order that they may be able to distinguish one style
from another, to apportion each to its proper period, and to
learn something of the history of all, without entering upon
a very deep study of the questions involved. For inquirers
of this class, I trust that my general remarks in each chapter
will afford the necessary information."
7. Little Books About Old Furniture - English Furniture J P Blake 1911 (200 pages)
A great little book about the Queen Anne period. The last third or so of the book is full of photgraphs of all different types of furniture of that period, a good identification/reference type book.
"The sovereigns of England, unlike those of
France, have seldom taken to themselves the
task of acting as patrons of the fine arts.
Therefore when we write of the "Queen Anne
period" we do not refer to the influence of
the undistinguished lady who for twelve years
occupied the throne of England. The term is
merely convenient for the purpose of classification,
embracing, as it does, the period from
William and Mary to George I. during which the furniture had a strong family likeness and shows a development very much on the same
line."
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