LENYGON Francis - Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760

London, Batsford (1914) 1927 (2nd ed, revised) x, 276pp, 322 bw illustrations 36x28, red cloth, blind-stamped decoration on front, glt text and decoration on spine. Cloth slightly discoloured on front, spine sunned, good thus. Volume from the publisher's English Decoration and Furniture of the XVIth-XIXth Centuries; the revisions from the first edition including moving some post-1760 material to later volumes, and additional coverage of Inigo Jones and Webb. Lenygon was both an expert on the history of furniture and a highly successful cabinetmaker in his own right, holding Royal Warrants from four successive monarchs, and being commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller as the lead consultant on the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg, VA. [Columbia University, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library]

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