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Author: Eastlake, Charles L.
Title: Hints on household taste in furniture, upholstery and other details. Third edition (revised).
Publication: London, Longmans Green and Co 1872.
Price: Sold
Reference: 10097
Full Description
8vo. xviii + 306pp, 32 plates (of which six are chromolitho, eight are coloured specimens of wallpaper, rest are woodcut), many woodcut text ills. Publisher’s decorative gilt and blind stamped cloth (binding presumably designed by Eastlake). Jill Allibone’s copy, with her bookplate. Earlier pencil ownership inscription dated 1957.
Third edition, revised, of the most significant publication of its time on interior furnishing and decoration in England. Eastlake was himself a pioneer in the design of “art furniture”, based on sixteenth and early seventeenth century models, and he illustrates many of his own designs for furniture and wallpaper, as well as providing decisive guidance on how to furnish houses “with a sense of the picturesque that shall not interfere with modern notions of comfort and convenience”. In this edition four of the original plates illustrating designs for wallpaper are omitted, but there are two added plates illustrating jewellery designed for the International Exhibition in Paris in 1872, respectively by Matthew Digby Wyatt and by Eastlake himself.