Buying Antiques: General Guide Hardcover - 1969

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1969* Publisher: David & Charles.* Binding and cover condition: Carmine cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Black & White photo-cover on maroon background with white title. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 30/-. Slight shelf wear to top edges and to head & tail of spine. Spine faded. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 157 pp. text. xxiii pp. Bibliography, glossary and inex at rear.* Description: This is an extended and revised edition of the first half of the original ?Buying Antiques? published in 1967. The text has been supplemented by the introduction of the new sections on weapons, books and coin collecting, and the glossary of terms used in the antiques trade considerably extended. It covers all the main collecting areas, describes processes of manufacture in simple terms, sets the various periods and their leading designers in historical perspective and gives expert advice on how to interpret the significance of apparently trivial details. Superbly illustrated by photographs and line drawings, carefully chosen to help the reader differentiate between ?right? and ?wrong?, this is a book of fascinating interest and practical value to buyers, sellers and owners of antiques alike.* A NEAR VG+ copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced to GD+ by tired dust jacket.*