Hope, Thomas. Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, executed from Designs by Thomas Hope. Title, 53 pp. With engraved title and 60 engraved plates. 57 x 34 cm. Semi-leather d. C. (breathed, infested, Vcover loose with flaws, more loaded) with gold-embossed RSchild. London, Bensley for Longman, 1807. Ornament stitch collection 1236. – Only edition of the rare work. The panels show decorative vases, room facilities, tables, chairs, cabinets, armchairs, sofas, oven umbrellas, fireplaces, vessels, pedestals etc. "About the age of eighteen Thomas Hope started on a tour through various parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, where he is interested himself especially in architecture and sculpture, making a large collection of the principal objects which attracted his attention. On his return to London about 1796 he purchased a house in Duchess Street, Cavendish Square, which he fitted up in a very laborate style, from drawings made by himself. In 1807 he published sketches of his furniture, approved by letterpress, in a folio volume, entitled Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, which had considerable influence in effecting a change in the upholstery and interior decoration of houses, notwithstanding that Byron had referenced snornfully to him as House-furnisher withal, one Thomas hight. Hopes furniture designs were in that pseudo-classical maner which is generally called English Empire. It was sometimes extravagant, and often heavy, but was much more restrained than the wilder and later flights of Sheraton in this style" (The 1911 edition Encyclopaedia). – Paper slightly tanned at the top. Stick and finger stained, attachment sheet with cracks.