The Connoisseur’s Year Book : The Antique Dealers’ Fair and Exhibtion, June 10th-25th 1953

Antique Fair and Exhibition Catalogue. c 150pp, with hundreds of black and white and colour images of antique furniture, silverware etc. Initially produced as a softback, this copy has been handsomely rebound deep blue cloth-covered boards, with fresh endpapers (boards just a little rounded at corners and spine ends). A few signs of fingering to pages, but internally neat, clean, bright and tight. With a series of articles on the theme of antiques and collecting, viz: The Wall Decorations in the Marlborough Pavilion, Chartwell, Home of the Rt Hon Winston S Churchill, by L G G Ramsey; Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, the Seat of the Viscount Scarsdale by Geoffrey Harmsworth; Sudbury Hall Derbyshire, Home of Lord Vernon by R Charles Lines; Ockwell’s Manor and its Collections, Home of Mr S H Barnett by Nicholas Carew; The Palace of Fontainebleau, Its Place in the History of France, by Maurice Moyal; Georgian Architecture in the British West Indies, by A W Acworth; The Armoury of the Dukes of Brunswick by J F Hayward; The Centenary of the Victoria and Albert Museum Celebrated in 1952 and some of its Acquisitions by Sir Leigh Ashton; London Auction Sales of 1951-52 by T P Greig; Some Aspects of the Du Pont Collection at Winterthur, Delaware for the Student of American Furniture by Helen Comstock; The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of American Silver at Yale University by John Marshall Phillips; Some English Portraits in the Huntingdon Collection at San Marino by Helen Comstock; Renaissance Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, by M L D’Otrange; Powerscourt, the Grand Classic of Irish Country Houses, The Home of Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt by Adrian Bury; Queen Elizabeth I at Richmond Court by Ian Dunlop; Antique Paste Jewellery by M D S Lewis; Vessels for Apothecaries, English Delft Drug Jars by Agnes Lothian; etc. Each article is illustrated with numerous photographs of its subject.