[Rarebooks] FS: Two volumes of Art At Home Series. Loftie. A Plea for Art & Garrett. House Decoration

[Karen Cinquemani]

Here you go HGTV fans!!

Two scarce interior decoration manuals intended for middle-class families.
Not yet listed. $175 net. Sale includes books and descriptions, if you wish.
Pictures can be arranged.

Nice evening,  Karen Cinquemani  H.A.S. Beane Books


Loftie, W. J. [William John Loftie, 1839-1911]
A Plea for Art in the House; with Special Reference to the Economy of  
Collecting Works of Art, and the Importance of Taste in Education and  
Morals. Art at Home Series.
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d. [ca. 1877] Caxton Press seal on  
t.p. verso.  Prob. first U.S. edition. First published in London by  
Macmillan in 1876.

Description: Crown octavo. x, [2] 100 pp. Frontispiece with tissue  
(Smith's Sideboard) & 2 full page wood-engraved illustrations + 11  
initials, tailpieces, illustrations within text.  Decorated title  
page. Blue cloth with black stamped decoration & lettering. Dark brown  
end papers.

Condition: Good-  (significant rub/mottling, wrinkling of cloth; paper  
age-toned; some light smudging & offprint; binding strings showing,  
but still firm). Plates bright & clean. Faint inscription of original  
owner on first blank dated Jan 1882.

Comments: Chapters include The Prudence of Collecting, Furnishing and  
Old Furniture, Pictures, Books and China, Art and Morals. William John  
Loftie, born in Northern Ireland, was a British clergyman and writer  
on the history of London, art and architecture, and travel. This  
publication is one of his earliest books.


Garrett, Rhoda [1841-1882] and Agnes Garrett [1845-1935]
Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting, Woodwork and Furniture.  
Art at Home Series.
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d. [ca. 1877] Caxton Press seal on  
t.p. verso.  Prob. first U.S. edition. First published in London by  
Macmillan in 1876.

Description: Crown octavo. viii, 90 pp. Frontispiece with tissue  
(drawing room mantel) & 5 full page wood-engraved illustrations + 1  
figure of "Initial letter on old linen" in text. Decorated title page.  
All illustrations present. Green cloth with black stamped decoration &  
lettering. Dark brown end papers.

Condition: Very Good (moderate rub/mottling of cloth; small black ink  
spot on edge of spine; paper age-toned; several tiny spots in text)  
Binding tight. All plates bright & clean. No previous owner's names or  
marks.

Comments: From W.J. Loftie's preface in A Plea for Art in the House:  
"A second volume of the series will be issues almost simultaneously  
with this one, containing some hints on "House Decoration," by Miss  
Rhoda Garrett and her partner, Miss Agnes Garrett."  From Elizabeth  
Crawford's The Women's Suffrage Movement: a Reference Guide,  
1866-1928:  The authors apprenticed with architect Daniel Cottier in  
1875 and established the first all female decorating company in England.
The authors emphasize the Queen Anne style, rather unusual for this  
period of the the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts Movements.

Discounted price to list: $175 for both. Ppd, insured in U.S.
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