first edition Hardcover
1952 · London
by Heal, Ambrose
London: B.T. Batsford, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. patterned boards and black cloth. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 276 pages. 30 x 22 cm. A record of 2500 cabinet-makers, upholsterers, carvers and gilders with their addresses and working notes illustrated by 165 reproductions of makers' trade-cards. With a chapter by R.W. Symonds on the problem of identification of the furniture they produced illustrated by some previously unpublished examples of authenticated pieces. (Inventory #: 17968)