Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall: Vol III Tapa dura - 1998

Leeds, Leeds Art Collections Fund-W.S. Maney & Son Ltd.-National Art Collection Fund. 1998. Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt title spine, gilt ornament frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: [x], 535-744pp., 23 coloured plates, 663 - 903 of bl.& wh. illustrations, 22 updated illustrations vol. 1 & 2, explanetions, abbreviations, bibliography, index, credits, table of contents. Fine copy.

Yorkshire: Leeds Art Collections Fund, 1998. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name. B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0901286869 - THREE VOLUME SET Published to mark the 75th Anniversary of the National Art-Collections Fund. This large and important work provides a carefully researched and lavishly illustrated survey of furniture at the two celebrated country house museums maintained by the Leeds City Council. The main strength of the collection is elite English 18th century furniture, much of which was commissioned for great houses now destroyed. The last complete catalogue of a public collection of English furniture was Percy Macquoid's volume on the Lady Lever Art Gallery which appeared in 1928. THREE VOLUME SET: Volume I, 1978, 246pp; Volume II, 1978, pp247-522, Volume III, pp523-744.