Download or read book Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years written by F. Lewis Hinckley and published by New York University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to all British lay authorities on Old English Furntiture, all of the bona fide Georgian masterpieces illustrated in this volume were designed and executed somewhere in England. Through extensive and detailed comparative studies, Hinckley contradicts popular theory and maintains that the masterpieces were produced in Dublin, Ireland. This edition contains photos of some 322 examples (more than five times the number of illustrated examples than first appeared in the 1953 volume). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR