A fine clean copy of "Oak Furniture ~ The British Tradition", by Victor Chinnery, first published in 1979, and here offered as revised to include the pictorial index and reprinted by The Antique Collectors' Club of Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1988. The first major book to be published on antique oak furniture for over fifty years and now regarded as the standard work of reference on the subject. The scholarly text covering the history and development of furniture in oak and kindred timbers in the British Isles and New England, from the Middle Ages through to 1800 is complemented by hundreds of superb black and white illustrations plus some fine full colour plates. Hard covers, large format, 618 pages, original dust jacket.
