A well-done and decorative student notebook, and really compendium, on the topic of cabinet or furniture-making. The notebook is written in a neat hand, with many illustrations of Renaissance and Gothic style furniture and ornament, and Tirolese style figures in as well. The most memorable illustration, though, is of a domed baroque church and monumental column and staircase in front of it. Measuring 20 by 16.5 cm, the notebook runs for about 100 pages, after which the leaves are blank. With also a homemade dust jacket. View More...
4to. 48 pp. Plus two way folded sheet price list. Profusely illustrated with photographs primarily, but also some drawn images of children, of furniture for children's rooms, including cribs, chests, high chairs, screens, etc. etc. The company produced furniture not just for infants but also for older children. It also pitched sets, such as its Treasure Island, Bo Peep and Little Colonel ensembles. The company went out of business in the early 1990s. Until then it was a major manufacturer in its furniture sector. Light wear. View More...
Folio, 38.5 by 27.5 cm. 105 pp. Grand Rapids Showcase Co. operated from 1901-26, manufacturing all types of display cases and counters for shops, and claiming to be "the world's largest manufacturers of high grade store furniture". In 1926 it merged with Welch-Wilmarth Company, becoming the Grand Rapids Store Equipment Company. Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC First Search, although two catalogues of the Welch-Wilarth Company, which presumably had a similar product line, were found, issued before the two entities merged. Heavy wear to wraps. Spine partly perished, with unsightly scotch... View More...
A hard-to-find classic on furniture. 8vo. vi, [10], 410 pp. plus 87 copper engraved plates, 27 of which are folding, of late Georgian and Regency Era designs by a master. Includes ten page list of subscribers. The definitions of terms ranges from short and to the point definitions to longer essays or encyclopedic articles. The writing is fluid and very readable, and the interest today is not merely as a hoary reference for words now fallen into disuse or whose meanings have shifted but also the numerous historical asides and lucid explanations of processes, etc. The writing is both preci... View More...
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