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When trying to find vintage bookcases, home pieces will commonly date from as far back as 1700 when case home furniture began to be produced in considerable quantity. Bookcases of course might be traced back as far as the late 16th century and you will find some incredibly fine examples at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. Early examples of bookcases were typically created of oak, and tended to be plain as opposed to good looking. Quite early books can be laid flat on the shelving, plus it was only using the coming of the print industry that spines and titles can be displayed outwards.

A walnut bureau bookcase from the time of Queen Anne (1702-14) is a really fine example of an earlier antique bookcase. Pieces such as this formed part of an innovation in furniture making in Britain, together with the arrival of Huguenot worksmen expelled from France at the finish of the 17th century and these new forms of manufacture stayed throughout the 1700s. The bureau bookcase was an surrounded set of racks set upon a bureau or writing desk. The desk had a fold down flap with sets of compartments arranged underneath. The cabinet added to top to carry the books had two usually mirror glazed doors which helped to encourage light. These cabinets have been generally pedimented on top to offer an architectural high quality towards the piece.

As the 1700s progressed, varying types of antique bookcase developed. Significantly larger architectural pieces ended up being manufactured for libraries and the smaller lightweight bureau bookcase for the drawing room. Walnut had now turn out to be very hard to find and mahogany was being imported as its substitute. The bookcase wasn’t only made to showcase textbooks but also to showcase the art of a cabinet maker and many high-quality examples remain in the time of George III onwards. Door fronts have been commonly glazed within astragal mouldings and beading and these ornamental glazed doors could range between fairly plain to quite elaborate.

A single of the most extraordinary bookcases is the breakfront. These are big architectural items with broken pediments and moulded cornices, commonly made from mahogany. They might be fully or half glazed with cupboards as opposed to bureaux underneath, generally with three or four sets of shelving, with all the central set pushed frontward or breaking the front of the piece.

Towards the finish of the 17th century designers like Robert Adam included furniture like the secretaire cabinet and secretaire bookcase into their general house design. The much lighter in weight satinwood had grow to be well-known with this later period and Adam employed craftsmen and artists to beautify furniture with marquetry inlay or colored neoclassical motifs and garlands of flowers. Some pieces have been incredibly bright and colourful indeed.

A lot of Queen Anne, Georgian and Neoclassical furniture in the 17th century was revived during the Victorian times so there remains an excellent choice of well manufactured, huge and extra compact vintage bookcases in a variety of guises to pick from. They are very imposing pieces of furnishings making superb investments for the flourishing antique collector, or for the investor.

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