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	Mahogany Bookcase Ref: D1M 892 Victorian Mahogany Bookcase having two short drawers above enclosed adjustable shelves. Two glass panelled doors flanked by two barley-twist columns. English circa 1880 H 121cm 47.5" W 146cm 57.5" D 42cm 16.5" Larger image... Price: ** SOLD ** If you wish to purchase this item, please click here for assistance...
	Pollard Oak Bookcase Ref D1 CC11C108 A very fine attractive early Victorian Pollard Oak Bookcase having four asjustable shelves. Has one long drawer with finely carved front, above two panelled cupboard doors enclosing two shelves. English circa 1840 H 226cm 89" W 114 45" D 40cm 16" Larger image... Price: ** SOLD ** If you wish to purchase this item, please click here for assistance...
	Oak Bookcase Ref: D1M 697 19th Century Waterfall shaped front bookcase. Four shelves, one restored. English circa 1820 - 1830 H 141cm 55.5" W 93cm 36.25" D 30cm 12" Larger image... Price: ** SOLD ** If you wish to purchase this item, please click here for assistance...
	Mahogany Bookcase Ref: D1 CC 902MT Victorian mahogany bookcase with adjustable shelves. Having two short drawers above a two door cupboard with a shelf. English circa 1860 - 1880 H 226cm 89" W 121cm 47.5" D 50cm 19.75" Larger image... Price: ** SOLD ** If you wish to purchase this item, please click here for assistance...
	Breakfront Secretaire Bookcase Ref: D1M THB1 A George III style mahogany breakfront secretaire library bookcase, by Ernest William Varley. The ribbed pagoda cresting with a pierced fretwork gallery tray top surmounted by urn finials flanked by conforming galleries to the side, the dentil-moulded and blind arched cornice above two pairs of glazed cupboard doors with Gothic astragals enclosing adjustable shelves, the central doors flanked by stop-fluted turned columns with gilt-brass Corinthian capitals, the outer doors with blind fret-carved chamfered corners, the gadroon-carved projecting lower section headed by a draped blind fret-carved tasselled frieze above a secretaire drawer fitted with an arrangement of drawers and pigeon-holes centering on a tambour fronted cupboard flanked by stop-fluted pilasters with gilt-brass capitals, below are a pair of cupboard doors with applied mouldings revealing four void compartments above a sliding tray shelf, flanked by a pair of conforming stop-fluted columns and two banks of five graduated drawers with conforming blind fret-carved chamfered corners, on a gadrooned base with leaf-carved ogee bracket feet The backboard of the secretaire section carved 'E. W. Varley, Whitby, 1913' English circa 1913 H 263 cm. 103.5" W 244 cm. 96" D 63 cm. 25" Provenance: Almost certainly commissioned by Sir Edward Mortimer Mountain, 1st Bt. (1872-1948) Thence by descent The present library bookcase is signed on the backboard of the secretaire by E. W. Varley. For the first three decades of the twentieth century the Varley's of Whitby were well-known as a family of Yorkshire cabinet-makers supplying high quality eighteenth century style furniture to clients in London, Edinburgh, Newcastle and America. They comprised Ernest William Varley (1876-1952) his elder brother Tom and his own son Tom. Ernest, the founder of the company, was initially apprenticed to Mr W. Coates, an antique dealer in Baxtergate and then later employed as a furniture restorer until he set up his own business in around 1900 in a workshop in Blackburn's Yard, Church Street, Whitby. He was soon joined by his brother and together they were responsible for establishing a highly successful business priding themselves on quality and the use of traditional techniques. The inspiration for this secretaire bookcase was almost certainly taken from the designs illustrated in the pattern books of Chippendale, Ince and Mayhew and Hepplewhite. The chinoiserie style cresting appears in many of Ince and Mayhew's engravings such as the 'Gentleman's Repository' illustrated in pl.XXI (cf. William Ince and John Mayhew, The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762) while the ribbon-tasselled frieze appears on Chippendale's design for a Gothic bed (cf. Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, No.XLVIII). An eighteenth century example of almost identical design to the offered lot, and possibly even the prototype, formerly at Holme Lacy, Herefordshire is illustrated in Ralph Edwards and Percy Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev.ed., 3 vols., 1954, vol.I, p.150, fig 57). We are grateful to Mr Syd Barnett of the Whitby Museum for assisting with our research. Larger image... Price: ** SOLD ** If you wish to purchase this item, please click here for assistance...