The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture
by Herbert Cescinsky
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Reprint of Cescinsky's 1931 volume on identifying antique furniture, describing both the features of a genuine piece and the signs of a fake. With numerous b/w images. DJ is rubbing and creased to edges with some tears to rear hinge with previous owner's tape repairs. Very faint foxing to fore-edge. Otherwise volume is clean and tight. Good+ in a fair DJ.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006883
- Title
- The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture
- Author
- Herbert Cescinsky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- antiques, furnishing, counterfeit, fakery, forgery,
Terms of Sale
AJ Scruffles
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
Biblio member since 2010
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
About AJ Scruffles
AJ Scruffles is an online bookseller, based between Epping and Harlow. Our website also hosts an online magazine with reviews, articles and humour
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.