Victorian Woodturnings and Woodwork: The 1893 Blumer and Kuhn Catalog of Premium Millwork

For anyone with an interest in Victorian-era homes, whether for restoration, new construction, design adaptation, or historic significance, this 1893 Blumer & Kuhn Catalog reprint is an invaluable resource. Reproduced from a rare original, the catalog provides almost 800 detailed illustrations covering superior quality stairs, stair railings and brackets, balusters, newel posts, mantels, rosettes, plinth and head blocks, turned porch and veranda work, gables, window hoods, ventilators, pews and pulpits, wooden ornaments, moldings and interior finishIand more. Particularly important is the fact that many of the designs illustrated go well beyond the conventional examples of woodturning and woodwork associated with the period. It is these varied and unusual examples that make this collection so valuable. 144 pages. 7" x 10". 130 plates. Soft cover.