A guide to collectors : 3,500 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth
A Guide to Collectors, published in London in 1900, is a pictorial reference by Thomas Arthur Strange for collectors of English furniture, interior decoration and woodwork spanning the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Its pages are dense engraved plates of desks, mirror frames, cornices and moulded ornament, and a designer could draw on their period-accurate scrolls, cartouches and classical mouldings for historical decorative vocabulary.
