This is for volumes 1,3,4 and 5 of Discovering Antiques published by Purnell around the 1970s. Red hardback folders contain magazines on museums and their collections. Folders have gilt lettering to spine and front, approximately 9 .5 x 12 inches tall. There are color illustrations throughout. 

This is a collection of magazines / monographs with color photos to aid the antique collector with detailed history and description covering a wide variety of antiques. 

Volume 1. The age of Gloriana. The splendour of the high Renaissance . France in the 16th century. Art for the Habsburg monarchy. Craftsmen and the guilds. Prosperity under King and Commonwealth. High Baroque interiors. The golden century. Culbert and the style of Louis 14th. The flamboyant years. Versailles -- A Paragon of palaces. The grandeur of the baroque palace. Great William and Mary interiors. Colonial America. Kingdom of the Czars. 

Volume 3 -- Kitchens in Georgian England. Small rococo rooms. The grand tour and the collector. The Palazzo in Italy. Louis 15 and the seven years War. The delights of the East. German rococo interiors. Walpole and strawberry hill. Le style Marie Antoinette. The re-creation of antiquity. The emergence of a national style. The English Garden. China and Japan. Georgi in London. Life in provincial France. English libraries and their furniture. 

Volume 4.  French neoclassicism. Magnificent decadence. English rural life and coaching. The French directoire. St Petersburg. The Carlton house set. Imperial residences. Brighton and the Prince Regent. Scottish domestic architecture. The age of Metternich. The Victorian way of life. The age of Jefferson. French interiors.

Volume 5. Haussmanns Paris. The Victorian interior. The war between the states. The green exhibition. Queen Victorias palaces. The vogue for oriental art in Europe. The arts and crafts movement. Symbolist Paris. Horta. American folk Art. Victorian nursery life. Vienna in the 1890s. Mansions for millionaire . The aesthetic movement. Index 

Please see photos for more on contents and condition.

Magazines are bound in 4 hardcover folders. Vol. 3 cover is nearly detached, Vol. 4 cover is detached.   There's a bit of highlighting noted in one page -- magazines are otherwise clean and in good to very good condition. There are other weak spots in bindings of Vols. 3 and 4.

Thanks for looking !

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