Chairs
by Joy, Edward T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(London: Country Life Books, 1980). 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 128; line drawings; photographs, some of which in colour. A volume in 'The Country Life Library of Antiques' series. Dustwrapper rubbed and a bit edgeworn; a little foxing to edges, and to reverse of dustwrapper. Good to very good condition. "Chairs are probably the ideal item for the beginner-collector. ... Here, Edward Joy looks back over the very long history of chairs in Britain beginning with the most recent ones of wickerwork and turned wood, and the chairs of state, symbols of great power and authority." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10902
- Title
- Chairs
- Author
- Joy, Edward T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Country Life Books, 1980)
- Keywords
- Furniture collecting. Antiques Antiques and Collecting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiques and Collecting;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...