How to Decorate for and with Antiques

254pp, with black and white illustrations throughout.  Quarter bound in brown cloth over orange paper-covered boards.  8vo.  Boards are a little worn and marked, gently rubbed at edges and slightly pushed at spine ends. Some mild spotting on endpapers, label on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, bumped at edges, shelf worn with a little chipping at spine ends and, less so, on upper edge, shelf worn.  

One of the most useful and authoritative books on antiques and decorating styles, it first surveys the four American decorating and architectural phases – Early American, Colonial, Federal and Victorian. It gives a history of wallpaper and a chart for measuring, as well as the best uses for fabrics and the complete story of furniture in the United States from the Jacobean to the Duncan  Phyfe period. It then shows how to decorate with antiques according to the chosen style.