A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY BOOKSTAND DRUM TABLE Inlaid overall with satinwood lines, the circular top surmounted by three circular graduated revolving tiers of bookshelves, the divisions applied with gold-tooled leather book-spines, the top row embossed 'MILTON', 'POPE', 'STURM', 'KNOX'S ESSAYS', 'ADVENTURER', 'OSSIAN', the middle row embossed 'EURIPIDES', 'MARMONTEL', 'LOUNGER', BOYD'S DANTE', 'HUDIBRAS', 'WEALTH OF NATIONS' and the bottom row embossed 'RAMBLER', MORDAUNT', METASTASIO', 'WORLD', and 'CICERO', the central shaft with dark-brown marbling, the frieze of the base fitted with four mahogany and cedar-lined drawers, one with a ratchetted adjustable green velvet-lined writing-surface, and a hinged fitted ink-drawer, on six ring-turned column-supports with gadrooned bases and engine-turned collars, on three hipped downswept legs with sunk panels and scrolled paw-feet, brass castors, with printed label to the base '9 10 1947 ', restorations; sold with a collection of 118 mostly leather and cloth-bound books, 8vo and smaller, formed to fit the shelves 44in. (112cm.) diam.; 57½in. (146cm.) high
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY BOOKSTAND DRUM TABLE Inlaid overall with satinwood lines, the circular top surmounted by three circular graduated revolving tiers of bookshelves, the divisions applied with gold-tooled leather book-spines, the top row embossed 'MILTON', 'POPE', 'STURM', 'KNOX'S ESSAYS', 'ADVENTURER', 'OSSIAN', the middle row embossed 'EURIPIDES', 'MARMONTEL', 'LOUNGER', BOYD'S DANTE', 'HUDIBRAS', 'WEALTH OF NATIONS' and the bottom row embossed 'RAMBLER', MORDAUNT', METASTASIO', 'WORLD', and 'CICERO', the central shaft with dark-brown marbling, the frieze of the base fitted with four mahogany and cedar-lined drawers, one with a ratchetted adjustable green velvet-lined writing-surface, and a hinged fitted ink-drawer, on six ring-turned column-supports with gadrooned bases and engine-turned collars, on three hipped downswept legs with sunk panels and scrolled paw-feet, brass castors, with printed label to the base '9 10 1947 ', restorations; sold with a collection of 118 mostly leather and cloth-bound books, 8vo and smaller, formed to fit the shelves 44in. (112cm.) diam.; 57½in. (146cm.) high
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