STOKES (J.)

The Complete Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide: ... The Processes of Veneering, inlaying, and Buhl-work; the art of dying and staining wood, ivory, bone, tortoiseshell & directions for lackering (sic) japanning, and varnishing, to make French polish.

A REAL BEAUTY

First edition. Folding hand-coloured frontispiece, plus 10 hand coloured plates (one folding) and 5 other plates. 12mo. Original printed boards, within a decorative border, backstrip sympathetically replaced, in a folding clamshell box. xii, [13]-133, [11 index]pp. London, Dean and Munday, 1829.

£1,500.00

This attractive little work is seldom found complete. The first edition (many were printed) is scarce and is the only one illustrated with colour plates.

Abbey Life, 75.

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