[Rarebooks] FS: Gothic Revival Furniture Design Book

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A Key Gothic Revival Furniture Design Book-

108. Talbert, B.J. "GOTHIC FORMS APPLIED TO FURNITURE, METALWORK, AND 
DECORATION FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES"

Published by S. Birbeck, Birmingham and the Author, London: 1867. A pattern 
book by an extremely influential Mediaevalist designer. Elisabeth Aslin 
('19th Century English Furniture') calls Talbert "probably the most 
influential (designer) of the whole period". Apprenticed as a woodcarver in 
Dundee, Talbert [1838-1881] soon took up the designers pencil and 
flourished in his new vocation. In 1867 he moved to London to design for 
the furniture maker Hollands, who won a medal at the Paris Exhibition that 
year with a Talbert-designed sideboard. In that same year Talbert published 
this work, and its influence was immediate. J. Moyr Smith wrote in his book 
'The Rise of Modern Styles' that Talbert's book was "without doubt the 
cause of the new style of decoration taking hold of the public; for the 
book soon found its way to the chief designers and cabinet-makers in the 
kingdom and imitations, which were sometimes improvements, were produced on 
all sides".

Talbert himself designed directly for a number of popular furniture makers 
besides Hollands, but whatever the source, his influence was broad and 
profound. The text of this book discusses general principles for the design 
and construction of Gothic-Revival furniture as well as such subjects as 
metal fittings and inlays. He also essays into the Victorian house, room by 
room, giving his suggestions for its decoration. The plates illustrate a 
variety of cupboards, cabinets, side-boards, tables, bookcases, and chairs, 
many presented as entire suites of designs for all the pieces he proposes 
putting in a particular room.

Hardcover. 13"x17", an elaborate decorative title page, 8 pages of text 
plus 30 lithographed plates; recently rebound in red cloth with a burgundy 
leather spine with raised bands; the covers feature a Gothicly-inspired 
stamped design in red and gilt with gilt titles -very handsome. The plates 
all have a light water stain on the outer bottom corner measuring abut 
5"x7"; the plates have nice wide margins, so this is unfortunate, but not 
too unsightly. [08820] $875.00



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