The Furniture History Society publishes occasional special volumes including the ground-breaking Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 (1986), edited by Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert and Christopher Gilbert’s complementary Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture (1996), as well as Simon Jervis’s Printed Furniture Designs before 1650 (1974), a unique corpus of some 450 early European designs.





Below is a list of Special Publications currently available.

Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead
By Judith Goodison ISBN 0 903335 12 3

Describes and illustrates the furniture supplied to Sir Richard Colt Hoare from 1795 and contains a complete transcript of the Chippendale accounts.

Paperback, 60 pages with 48 plates in colour and black and white. £6.95 (£5.95 to members of the Society) including postage and packing


Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840
By Christopher Gilbert ISBN 0 901286 71 0

A fully illustrated record of all known examples of London furniture identified by a maker’s trade label or stamp.

Hardback, 480 pages, 1050 illustrations and bibliographical information on 335 furniture makers. £45 (£29 to members of the Society) including post and packing



Thomas Johnson’s The Life of the Author
By Jacob Simon ISBN 0 903335 10 7

An extremely rare autobiography of one of the outstanding carvers and gilders of the golden age of English furniture making.

Paperback, 54 pages £8.95 including postage and packing


Irish Furniture
Edited by Brian Austen ISBN 0 903335 09 3

Consisting of papers read before a Symposium of the Furniture History Society, this paper reflects the latest research on Irish furniture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Paperback, 52 pages, 60 illustrations

£8.95 (£7.95 to members of the Society) including postage and packing


The London Furniture Trade 1700-1870
By Pat Kirkham ISBN0 903335 06 9

A pioneering survey of the organization and development of furniture making in London.

Paperback, 219 pages, 58 black and white illustrations. £20 including post and packing


A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers 1660-1840
By Francis Bamford ISBN 0 903335 04 2

A comprehensive and impressively illustrated Dictionary based on archival research together with an essay on the development of the furniture trade in Edinburgh.

Paperback, 137 pages, 86 black and white photographs. £20 including post and packing.


Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1600-1840
Edited by Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert ISBN 0 901286 18 4

The definitive work on furniture makers of any nationality active in England between 1660 and 1840. Makers are listed in alphabetical order with biographical details, commissions and information about signed or documented pieces.

Casebound in cloth, over 1000 pages with some 50,000 entries £75 (£49 to members of the Society) including post and packing


Index to the Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
ISBN 0 903335 07 7

An essential companion to the Dictionary. Nearly 35,000 entries on 187 pages.

Clothbound, £20 (£18 to members of the Society) including post and packing


Furniture History: Forty Years on.
By Nicholas Goodison ISBN 0 903335 11 5

A History of the Society with listings of all articles that have appeared in Furniture History.

Paperback, £7.95 (£5 to members of the Society) including post and packing


Special and Back Issues of Furniture History.
Special volumes devoted to a single theme are:

Vol. XVI (1980) The Furnishing and Decoration of Ham House,
by Peter Thornton and Maurice Tomlin.

Vol. XVIII (1982) The Cabinet Maker’s London Book of Prices 1793, introduction by Pat Kirkham and Christopher Gilbert

Vol. XIX (1983) Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers, by Francis Bamford.

Vol. XX (1984) Italian Furniture

Vol. XXIV (1988) The London Furniture Trade, by Pat Kirkham

Vol. XXVII (1991) German and Austrian Furniture

Back issues available are:
IX (1973); XI (1975); XII (1976); XIV (1978); XV (1979); XVI (1980); XVII (1981); XVIII (1982); XIX (1983); XX (1984); XXII (1986); XXIII (1987); XXIV (1988); XXV (1989); XXVI (1991); XXVIII (1992); XXIX (1993); XXX (1994); XXXI (1995); XXXII (1996); XXXIII (1997); XXXIV (1998); XXXV (1999); XXXVI (2000); XXXVII (2001); XXXVIII (2002); XXXIX (2003); XL (2004)

£18 per volume including post and packing; £30 per volume to non-members.

Index volumes for Furniture History are:
Vol. I-X (1965-74) Vol. XI-XV (1975-79) Vol. XVI-XXV (1980-89)
Vol. XXVI-XXXV (1990-99)

£ 5 per volume including post and packing.


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