English and American Furniture; A pictorial handbook of fine furniture made in Great Britain and in the American colonies, some in the sixteenth century but principally in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
New York: Garden City Publishing, n.d. [1929]. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [8] 9-[312] : photo illustrated : tan cloth with lettering to spine : photo illustrated brown and white dust jacket : signed by Cescinsky on the front free endpaper.
Dust jacket has two large open tears to top cover and further vertical tears to lower edges; newspaper advert. for a Chippendale secretary taped to front paste-down; some foxing and toning to endpapers and prelims; a second indecipherable signature above Cescinsky's. Very good / poor. Item #15452
Signed and dated 1936 by Cescinsky. The news clipping for the Chippendale Secretary has an address for Bloomingdales Department Store scrawled in red pencil.
Herbert Cescinsky (1875–1950) was a prominent figure in the world of antiques and decorative arts during the early to mid-20th century.
Price: $100.00