Main entry:

Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.

Title & Author:

Gothic furniture : consisting of twenty-seven coloured engravings / from designs by A. Pugin ; with descriptive letter-press.

Publication:

London : Published by R. Ackermann, 96, Strand, and sold by all booksellers, [1827?]

Description:

iv, 26, [1] pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Also ascribed to A.W.N. Pugin. This book is not, however, in the bibliography of A.W.N. Pugin in Phoebe Stanton's Pugin (New York, 1972). Michael Trappes-Lomax, in Pugin, a mediaeval Victorian (London, 1932), ascribes it to A.C. Pugin, although a single plate ("A Gothic sofa", Nov. 1826) is credited to A.W.N. Pugin. In the Literary Gazette, no. 617, Nov. 15, 1828, p. 728, it is reviewed as being by the author of Specimens of Gothic architecture, Antiquities of Normandy & C. [i.e. A.C. Pugin].
Advertized as "just published" in Ackermann's Repository of arts, Feb., 1828, where it is priced at 25s, with colored engravings and letterpress. Later advertisements in the same year add that it is quarter-bound. The present copy matches these descriptions.
T.p. watermarked 1827.
"London, J. Moyes, Took's Court, Chancery Lane"--Title page verso.
Illustrations: 27 aquatint plates : full plates. Each with imprint of Ackermann; plate numbers refer to the Repository of Arts, from where these plates are taken. Each engraving is accompanied by descriptive text.

Subject:

Furniture, Gothic.
Inteior decoration.
Draperies.
Upholstery.
Meubles gothiques.
Hand-coloured aquatints.

Form/genre:

rare books.

Added entries:

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.

Binder's title: Pugin gothic furniture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91801
Call No.: PO2706
Status: Available