Chimneypieces and Ingle Nooks: Their design and ornamentation

Rothery, Guy Cadogan. Chimneypieces and Ingle Nooks: Their design and ornamentation. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c.1900. First edition. 8vo. 239pp. Olive cloth, cream colored geometric design with gold lettering on both front and spine, in original paper dust wrapper. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of photographs and drawings of fireplaces and their design and ornamentation. Frontispiece of fireplace by Grinling Gibbons for Hampton Court Palace, protected by glassine. Covers designs from Romanesque and Early Gothic to the early twentieth century. Dw aged and slightly chipped on head and tail of spine and at corners. Overall very good condition. Scarce. vg. Hardcover. (23419) $95