British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914

Description: New York: Harry N. Abrams. 2001. First edition, 4to, pp. 231, 28cm. Fronits, illust, biblio, photos, index. Clean burgundy boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt campaign tent design on front, in clean pictorial DJ that is near pristine. Endpapers are an interesting illustration that was sketched around 1837 by an Officer in that particular campaign. There are 275 illustrations with 140 of them in full color. This is an all-around Fine Copy. "Campaign furniture, designed to be folded up, packed, and carried on the march, has been used by traveling armies since the time of Julius Caesar, and even earlier. With the rise and expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as British gentlemen came to dominate the army, government, and commerce in colonies throughout the world, the finest British furniture makers produced for the new class of traveler some of the most stylish pieces of portable furniture ever made. Such renowned designers as Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton competed to devise ever more elegant and ingenious "knock-down" chairs, tables, desks, bookcases, sofas, and beds, all in the height of fashion. Thus British officers and civilian gentlemen traveling to India, Africa, North America and the South Seas could order complete suites of furniture for Genteel life abroad."

Price: 185 USD

Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

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