[Rarebooks] FS: 1862 Furniture Pattern Book w/Original Pencil Patterns/Drawings

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"The Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified"

By Thomas King.
Published in London by H.G. Bohn in 1862. 2nd edition, "with 
considerable additions".

A Victorian edition of an important Regency furniture design book, first 
published in 1829. What is of particular interest in this copy are the 
extensive original design drawings for furniture, mantels and houses, 
drawn on many of the page versos. The book contains the ownership 
signature of John Calvin Gitchell of New Hampshire, who published 
several poems in Godey's Ladies Book and Harper's Weekly in the 1860s, 
but whose connection to furniture making or architecture, if he did 
indeed make these drawings, remains obscure.

Hardcover. 10.5"x13", 8 pages of text plus 100 lithographed plates, 
several nicely hand-colored. Covers with some soil and wear, hinges 
reinforced, some soil and foxing to the plates. With 13 pages of 
original drawings of furniture details & mantels, 11 of buildings and 
floor plans, and 7 drawings of animals and other subjects. There is also 
one page with two drawings of cabins titled "Camp of the 39th Regt. 
Mass. Vols. Mitchell's Station VA Winter of 1863-4". The design drawings 
and plans are all carefully executed and professional appearing.  $875-

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