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Description A Regency style painted and parcel-gilt bookcase
late 19th/early 20th?century
the shaped verde antico marble over open shelves within leaf rounded pilasters with applied?neo-classical decoration?on turned feet together with a?collection of bindings, comprising; 79 leather-bound books, including Boswell’s Life of Johnson (John Murray, 1835), 10 volumes, Life of W. Pitt (John Murray, 1867), 4 volumes and 34 volumes of Bell’s British Theatre; some sets incomplete and the shelves redecorated
99.5cm. high, 131cm. wide, 40cm. deep
Condition Report Bookcase. Very decorative. Marble generally good. The piece would benefit from re-painting. There are chips to the later paint revealing a gilt-surface, which suggests it could have been gilt all over. Chips to the applied gilt-gesso decoration. Despite 'Country House' condition this piece is pleasing. The books sold as is and purely as decoration - refer to cataloguing as most runs incomplete. Typical rubbing, wear to gilding and losses to leather. Pages foxed and stained in many cases.
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Literature Inventory, 1926, p. 28,?in the South Room.