Old English walnut & lacquer furniture : the present-day condition and value and the methods of the furniture-faker in producing spurious pieces by R. W. Symonds; illustrated with sixty-five examples of exceptional interest to collectors & students, none of which have been hitherto reproduced. With a foreword by Percival D. Griffiths.
Symonds, R. W. 1889-1958. (Robert Wemyss)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221872
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [3], 17-176 p., XL [i.e.40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine.
Makers and roles
Symonds, R. W. 1889-1958. (Robert Wemyss) Griffiths, Percival D