Thomas Chippendale Study Life Work by Brackett Oliver, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Tight, Clean, Unmarked Copy w/ Faint Toning to Endpapers; Bright Green Covers w/ very small chip at head of spine and w/ Strong Gilt Titles; Covers w/ Very Light Shelfwear; Attractive Copy! ! ! ; 281 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black and white illustrations plates. First edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. ND [1924]. xiii, 281pp. 61 plates and 8 text illus. A fine copy with no wear, fading or foxing. Bright covers with fresh gilt lettering and decoration. No inscriptions or marks. Fore-edge a trifle dusty.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. A first edition biography on the prominent and immensely influential cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale, replete with illustrations showing his work throughout. The first edition of this work.Thomas Chippendale was an important cabinet maker of the eighteenth century, designing in the mid-Georgian, Rococo, and Neoclassical styles, his work being renowned during his life and still popular up to today.This biographical works looks into the life, work, and influence of Chippendale.Illustrated with a frontispiece, seventy-four plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.By Oliver Brackett.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'John Watts, from Brian Watts, on his 70th birthday, Nov 17th 1929, many happy returns of this day'.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with some marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd scattered spots. Good. book.

(CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS). BRACKETT, Oliver. Thomas Chippendale. A Study of His Life, Work and Influence. With Numerous Illustrations Selected to Show the Development of His Style. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1924]. 1st ed. 4to. Illus. 281pp. Fine in orig. cloth.

Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. First American edition. First American edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Green cloth. Almost fine. Bookplate and stamp of Clarence Dillon.

Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. First edition. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Grey cloth. Some rippling to covers, else VG.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A first edition study of furniture maker Thomas Chippendale, illustrated throughout with examples of his work. The first edition of this study of the life, work and influence of British cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale, known for designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles, and whose designs are now reproduced globally.Illustrated with sixty-one plates, consisting of both sketches and photographs of Chippendale's works. Collated, complete.This is the work of Oliver Brackett, responsible for producing numerous studies on furniture and designers, including his 'Encyclopaedia of English Furniture'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Starting to front and rear hinges, with boards holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. various (illustrator). 1st Edition. A wonderful, large, luxuriously produced study of the eighteenth century maestro of furniture design, issued in 1925 at 2 guineas, which in today's money would be about £130. Incredibly rare in its original dustwrapper and both the book and wrapper are in really fine condition, chiefly because the previous owner, a cabinet maker to the Royal Household, had covered the book in brown paper in December 1926 when he inscribed his name in pencil in the book. Bluish-black buckram with bright gilt lettering and design to upper board and spine. Frontispiece, introduction, ten chapters, six appendices, works of reference, index, description of plates. Illustrations: frontispiece, Chippendale's signature, eight designs in the text, sixty one black and white plates. Heavy paper stock. Just a little offsetting to the endpapers but this doesn't detract from the book's overall fine, crisp condition. It exudes quality throughout and would make a perfect gift for a lover of fine furniture. Extra postage costs may need to be factored in, as this is a heavy book.