[Rarebooks] FS: Decorating Your House in 1879

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Garrett, Rhoda & Agnes.  "Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting,
Woodwork and Furniture"

London; Macmillan: 1879. 6th ed.

A popular guide to the Aesthetic, or “Queen Anne” style as it might be
applied to the furniture, wallpaper, draperies and other decorations of a
middle-class Victorian home of good taste- “Every one who has a house of
his own may, I hope, find useful hints, for the rules of good taste apply
to the cottage as well as to the manor house...Expensive decoration has
not been advocated; nothing, in fact, but what may be secured at the same
cost as the ugliness which at present pervades too many even of our
wealthiest homes”. The text is illustrated with 6 wood engraved plates,
three of which feature grand mantelpieces.

Hardcover. 5”x7.25”, viii + 90 pages, with 1 b/w text illustration, plus 6
b/w plates; 4 pages of advertisements. Publisher’s blue cloth with black
decoration; covers a little worn, but a very nice copy.  [09897]  $150.00

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