British Antique Furniture: Price Guide and Reasons for Values

Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1989 . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 11" by 9". None. An excellent copy of this important guide to the process of collecting antique furniture, providing readers with a detailed commentary on value and price. The work of English journalist, author on antiques and crime writer, the dust wrapper of this work explains that, first published in 1968, 'for the last twenty years this book has in its various editions outsold all other books on British antique furniture simply because it is unique in explaining what to look for when assessing the value of antique pieces'.This is the first edition of this work to feature colour plates, a reflection of 'the huge financial importance of patination and colour'.A fascinating guide for all with an interest in antique furniture, this work appears here in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally lovely. Minor edgewear to dust wrapper head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine