Production Details:

Hardback
492pp

Description:

The pieces in this book have passed through the hands of one of Britain's leading furniture dealers, Norman Adams.

But it is far from being just a series of fine photographs for it concentrates principally on the British Mahogany furniture of the eighteenth , a period when British design and craftsmanship reached its pinnacle, a fact amply verified by the sustained demand of these fine pieces.

The book contains some 475 black and white and 56 colour photographs. The illustration of so many fine pieces, as well as unusual items, superbly photographed, would in itself have earned this book a place on the shelves of anyone seriously interested in the subject. But there is an added bonus. A firm like Norman Adams prospers by the skill of selection in buying - a 'good eye' - and it is this essential facility, succintly expressed in the captions to the pieces in this book, which will ensure its lasting reputation as an important work of reference.