Beard, Geoffrey.

The National Trust Book of English Furniture.

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1986. 14.5cm x 21cm. 295 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Eastlake, Charles L.

Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details.

Rare First English Edition. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. xiv, 269 pages. With illustrations in text and various plates, some in colour. Contemporary quarter brown morocco over paper covered boards. Hard cover with gilt title on spine. Fore and tail edge deckle. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Ex Libris of previous owner (‘Thos. Gaisford’) on front paste down. From the library of Howth Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Internally mildly foxed, otherwise clean. Partially unopened. Complete with all Illustrations and Plates, as listed, including 14 colour Plates / Samples.

Krauth, Theodor / Meyer, Franz Sales.

Die Gesamte Möbelschreinerei – Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der kunstgewerblichen Form.

Leipzig, Verlag von E.A. Seemann, 1902. 24.5cm x 18cm. 290 Seiten mit 276 Textfiguren. Zusätzliche 136 Tafeln. Original Hardcover. Sehr guter Zustand / Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Title in gilt on the cover and spine.

Odate, Toshio.

Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use.

First Printing. Newtown, CT, The Taunton Press, 1984. 30 x 22 cm. viii, 189 pages. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos in B&W. Original dark blue cloth with title on spine. Hard cover. Inside original decorated dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Some edgewear and one short (1.5 cm) closed tears to dust jacket. Internally bright and clean without annotations. A nice copy.