Three first editions on English interior design, offering social historians and budding designers ideas from the elegant styles of Georgian England.
Three first editions of works on English Decoration, Interiors and Furniture, particularly during the eighteenth century, all published by Barrie & Jenkins.
In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers.
Known for its elegance, Georgian interior design fused light pastel colour schemes with the grandiosity of neoclassicism.
- English Decoration in the 18th Century, written by John Fowler and John Conforth.
Contains all forty colour plates, and numerous in-text illustrations.
Collated complete.
(1974)- English Interiors, 1790-1848: The Quest For Comfort, written by John Conforth.
Scarce.
A natural follow-up to English Decoration, inspiring social historians and theatre designers.
Contains numerous in-text and full-page colour and monochrome illustrations throughout.
(1978)- Mallett's Great English Furniture, written by Lanto Synge.
Contains numerous in-text and full-page colour and monochrome illustrations throughout.
(1991) In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers.
Externally, mart, with minimal marks and edgewear, and small knocks to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities.
A small incision to tail of front joint of Interiors and minor fading to spine.
Dust wrappers are bright and clean, with minor edgewear.
A couple of minor closed tears to top edge of Decoration front wrapper and minor chipping to tail of wrapper spine.
Slight creasing to Interior front wrapper top edge.
End papers are bright and clean.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good Indeed