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HOPE, Thomas (1769-1831). Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, Executed from Designs. London: T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807.
Large folio (464 x 292 mm). Additional engraved title, 60 copper engraved plates (spotting). Modern half calf gilt. (Spotting throughout, heavy on a few textual leaves).
FIRST EDITION of the “most important English furniture design book of the early nineteenth century” (Musgrave, 1970 facsimile edition). It contains what is considered the earliest use of the term “interior decoration” introduced into the English language. Abbey Life 24; Archer 448:1; RIBA 1547.