4 volumes. Numerous plates from photographs and text illustrations throughout, in total, each volume with approximately 426 images. (Folio), original maroon cloth decoratively blind-stamped, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.
Four profusely illustrated volumes making up Jourdain's important "Library of Decorative Art" series. Margaret Jourdain (1876-1951) was a foremost authority on English furniture and design, and the still (at the time) virtually unexplored history of interior decoration and furnishing.
Includes:
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Of the Early Renaissance (1500-1650). [iv], a-g [but h], v-xvii, 305 pp. color frontispiece from a watercolor by Joseph Nash. 1924.
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Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760. x, 276 pp. Second Edition, Revised. 1927
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Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760. xii, 300 pp. Second Edition, Revised. 1924.
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Of the Later XVIIIth Century (1760-1820). xvi, 269 pp. 1922.
