Miller's Buyer's Guide: Late Georgian to Edwardian Furniture Buyer's Guide

by Leslie Gillham and Jonty Hearnden

Book Overview

This updated guide lists furniture arranged by type and use - tables, seating furniture, desks and so on - and each section contains fact boxes with practical information on individual items and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184000696X
• ISBN13: 9781840006964
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

good visual reference

I am an auctioneer and I use this book often to check on pieces. This book is a very good visual reference as to the oh-so-different styles and pieces of fine furniture dating from late eighteen to early twenty century (the vast majority of what you'll find out there). As to the prices, well, it gets dated fairly quick, but alas, they don't publish it every year, though if you are in on the current trends, it gives you a place to start. The one I have is not all in color, hence only four stars. PS. Use it in combination with the more comprehensive 'Miller's Antiques' that does appear every year.

The Best Antique Furniture Identification Resource.

As a resource for valuing antiques, and as been touched upon in the other reviews, this books fails monumentally; as with all markets, antique prices are a function of market fundamentals, and as a consequence, prices are constantly in flux. However, this book is worth its weight in gold as a means of identifying and attributing antique furniture to specific English monarchial reigns. To the best of my knowledge, it is the most comprehensive resource for antique furniture identification that I have ever encountered. Is it a George IV or William IV bookcase? A survey of the hundreds of pictures of English furniture in this book will soon lay your question to rest, and leave you with an encyclopedic knowledge of designs, terms, and names of important cabinetmakers so that you have a good mastery of the discipline. As always, questions regarding the valuation of antique furniture is best gleaned from your local auction house floor, and not from a book.