How To Build, Furnish And Decorate; Consisting Of Elevations And Plans For Houses, Barns, And Every Description Of Outbuilding, Accompanied With Clear And Concise Instructions: Also, A Complete Treatise On House Furnishings And Decoration Shoppell, R.W. American Art,Architecture,Design,Victorian

3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher by presenting the aforementioned number. An extremely valuable and well illustrated treatise. Chapters on furniture and decoration; hall and staircase; dining room; drawing room; bedrooms; library; kitchen; hints to purchasers of furniture; wall and ceiling papers; glass for home decoration; how to hang pictures; needlework in decoration; the piano; stenciling and gilding; about the use of colors; carpets; screens; over mantels and over doors; the decoration of doors; rustic work; warming the house and practical miscellany. The illustrations include numerous fully furnished room interiors. HITCHCOCK 1171. Wear to backstrip foot, and lower corners, nick to front cover joint. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good