Symonds, R. W., English Furniture from Charles II to
George II, New York, International Studio, Inc., 1929.  [xx],[1-2], 3-322 pages.   Blue cloth-covered boards, gold stamp lettering on the front cover and spine.   Large folio, 10 “x 14”.

“American Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is No. 391.”  “With more than 260 illustrations from examples in the Collection of Percival D Griffiths, F.S.A. at Sandridgebury”.   Illustrations in black and white, many full page with one colour frontispiece.   With Forward by Griffiths and a 7-page list of subscribers.

First edition.   A good copy.   Robert Wemyss Symonds was a British architect, and “the pre-eminent 20th-century scholar and authority on English furniture” (The Winterthur Library).

See A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS BY ROBERT WEMYSS SYMONDS, Colin Streeter and Margaret Barker , Furniture History, Vol. 11 (1975), pp. 88-107

$150 SOLD