Thornton, Peter
Authentic decor. The domestic interior 1620-1920.
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1984.
Reference: 14622
Price: £75 [convert currency]
Full Description
Oblong folio. 408pp, 532 photo ills (many colour). Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy with his booklabel. Two autograph letters, signed, to Stamp from Thornton loosely enclosed, respectively dated 17 January 1985 and 18 July 1985.
A very good study of interior decoration in England, Europe and North America over a three-hundred year period, illustrated throughout by reliable contemporary illustrations of domestic interiors.