
GENERAL AND CONTINENTAL BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 94•
HOPE (THOMAS) Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, FIRST EDITION, 1807; Costume of the Ancients, 2 vol., 1812 (3)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,402.50 inc. premium
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HOPE (THOMAS)
Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title and 60 plates by Aiken and Dawe, ink smear to pl.38, contemporary black half morocco, spine gilt with Greek key tools, extremities very lightly rubbed [Abbey Life, 24; Berlin Kat. 1236], folio (465 x 275mm.), T. Bensley for Longman, 1807; Costume of the Ancients, 2 vol., "new edition", 300 engraved plates, without half-titles, contemporary tree calf, joints cracking, extremities rubbed, 8vo, W. Miller, 1812 (3)
Footnotes
Hope's Household Furniture is considered "the most important English furniture design book of the early nineteenth century" (Musgrave, 1970 facsimile edition). It contains what may be the earliest use of the term "interior decoration".
Provenance: First work, John Harris, pictorial bookplate; Second work, Hobart, J.B. Bury, and Michael Bury, bookplates.