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SMITH (GEORGE) A Collection for Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste
10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
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A Collection for Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste, first edition, 158 aquatint plates, all but 6 hand-coloured (plates 23 and 26 trimmed to platemark and remounted to size), minor browning to some plates, bookplate of Donald and Mary Hyde, contemporary vellum, upper cover gilt lettered 'Marquis of Downshire, Hillsborough Castle', lower cover slightly stained, [Abbey Life 71; Berlin Cat. 1237], 4to, J. Taylor, 1808
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The most ambitious, comprehensive and handsomely illustrated furniture book of the Regency period, depicting a range of eclectic designs in Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese and Gothic styles. In addition to individual pieces of furniture it includes whole room schemes demonstrating the decoration and arrangement of of furniture in situ. Inscribed at the head of the title-page, "For the use of James McBlaine, Hillsborough". James McBlaine, architect and mason, worked for Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, at Hillsborough, Co. Down in the 1760s and 1770s.

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