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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Pearse, G. E.

Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa

Published: J. L. van Schaik, Pretoria, 1960

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Folio; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. ix + (i) + 193; generously illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Cloth rather worn, and fore-edges of boards rather damp-stained, with some erosion to lower fore-edge; discreet archival tape strengthening to upper hinge; generally very faint trace of damp-staining to fore-edges of leaves; a little foxing. Fair externally; good internally. Still the authoritative treatise on this popular subject, and the standard reference for collectors. "This book is written as a companion volume to my Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa. In it I have endeavoured to trace the development of furniture in South Africa, and to indicate the sources of the influences responsible for that development. During the period involved the burghers in Cape Town and the wealthy farmers in the country districts built lovely homes, many of which have been preserved, and filled them with beautiful pieces of furniture, silverware, china and glass. The standard of taste both in Holland and England, the countries with which the settlement at the Cape was most closely associated was, at the time, exceptionally high. Most of the pieces of furniture illustrated were made of South African wood in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."
  • Size: Folio
  • Sold By: Christison Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Lindsay Christison
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 073 290 2830 / 041 371 4844
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  • Trade Associations: SABDA, IOBA


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