LOCKWOOD’S PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED COLONIAL FURNITURE, FIRST EDITION

LOCKWOOD, Luke Vincent. Colonial Furniture in America. New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1913. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut and unopened. $3200.

Second edition, greatly expanded from the one-volume first edition, with 867 illustrations.

Lockwood's classic survey of furniture from the Colonial period is based on the examination of colonial furniture in public and private collections, inventories, contemporary records, and cabinet-makers' design books. The one-volume first edition was published in 1901 and contained less than half as many illustrations. Bookplates of Chicago meatpacking magnate J. Ogden Armour.

Fine condition.