Fake Antique Furniture - 1931 Cescinsky Classic, First Edition

Description

“The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture”
By Herbert Cescinsky.
Published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1931.
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DISCUSSION:
One of the most influential and best-loved books on fake furniture and its attendant hazards, fakers, detecting alterations, etc. As collecting "old things" became more popular at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, the trade in restored (faked) furniture exploded, with able cabinetmakers and unscrupulous dealers happily pasting genuinely old parts together to create "complete" examples of rare pieces, usually with no notice to the purchaser that any restoration work had been done beyond a brisk dusting and perhaps a new coat of varnish. Into this morass of confusion, collusion and corruption Herbert Cescinsky, longtime dealer and the author of more than half a dozen respected books on antique English furniture, clocks and interiors, happily waded with this much-needed book.
Ames & Ward call it "literate and entertaining", and go on to note that its lessons, though decades old, apply "with equal force today and almost appear to have been written as a cautionary for some modern historians -even though the remarks are directed at the collector of English furniture, students of American objects can profit by many of the general observations. See, in particular, the list of questions stated in Chapter 5, 'Detective Methods and the Problem of Restoration'."
DESCRIPTION:
Hardcover. 8"x10.5", 168 pages plus 288 black & white plates.
CONDITION NOTES:
Covers lightly dusty, some splits to the cloth along the hinges. Pages lightly toned, several with minor "offsetting" shadows from old paper inserts, but otherwise clean and nice, with a tight binding.
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