Old Furniture – A Magazine of Domestic Ornament / The Collector – The Magazine for Lovers of Art, Volumes I to IX, June 1927 to April 1930 (all issues) (Four Volumes)

All issues of the monthly periodical Old Furniture – The Magazine of Domestic Ornament, issued between June 1927 1929 and April 1930, bound in four volumes.  The magainze adopted a new name in January 1930, becoming The Collector – The Magazine for Lovers of Art and the latter issues in this collection carry the new title.  This a complete run of the magazine, containing all the monthly issues. Each issue contains  eight colour plates and many further monochrome illustrations accompanying a substantial descriptive text.  Volumes uniformly bound in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  4tos.  Cloth on all four volumes is a little tired, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and ends of sunned and marks spine, with the occasional chip, scratch and indentation. Cloth shelf worn and marked.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on front free endpaper in each volume, which also have some internally occasional and scattered spotting, the occasional strained gutter and mark,  else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  

Old Furniture (published under the title The Collector from January 1930) was a montly art, crafts and antiques magazine, published between 1927 and 1930, focussing on domestic ornamentation, antique and fine furniture and historic craftsmanship.  Articles contained in these issues include Antique Needlework in the Holt Collection; Celadon Porcelain: Its Story and Decorative Value; The Furniture of Bernuda; Ming Porcelains and Some Others from the Bloxam Collection; The Ashridge Stained Glass; American Beds of Other Days; Three Busts by Torrigiano; Three Clocks by Thomas Tompion; The Craftsmen Employed at Hatfield House, from the Hatfield Estate Papers; English Decorative Art at Lansdowne House; Meissen Porcelain Figures in the Collection of the Hon Mrs Walter Levy; Furniture at Windsor Castle; Stuart Needlework Caskets; Furnishings at Hampton Court Palace for William III; Maidenhead Spoons; The Louterell [Luttrell] Psalter;  The Psalter and Hours of John, Due of Bedford; and many, many more.

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