Description and condition:

Blue decorated cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 317 pp., b/w illustrations.

Good copy only with discolouring and wear to the covers, the gilt title along the spine is almost completely flaked off, light foxing to the preliminaries, else with good clean pages. In poor dustcover with loss and discolouring, foxing to reverse, now protected.

Contents:

By the director of Good Housekeeping Studio and associate editor of the magazine. Furnishing houses in the early American manner; an early American dining-room; early American bedrooms; livable houses in the Colonial feeling; a dining-room in the Colonial feeling; Colonial bedrooms; modern rooms in the 18th century feeling; paneled rooms; living-rooms in the early English feeling; bedrooms for houses in the early English or Jacobean feeling; living-rooms in the Italian and Spanish feeling; sunrooms, breakfast rooms and terraces; modern bathrooms; the guest room; rooms for girls and boys; nurseries; using light as a decoration; curtains, slip-covers, and dressing tables; convenient and attractive closets