An oak double bookcase designed by Ernest Gimson

An oak double bookcase designed by Ernest Gimson, double width, four graduated shelves, on sleigh feet, 115cm. high, 153cm. wide.

Provenance

Laurence Bisson, Pembroke College, Oxford, then Professor at Queen's University Belfast.

Philip Boyd, thence by descent.

Literature

Annette Carruthers Ernest Gimson & The Cotswold Group of Craftsmen, Leicester Arts and Museums, page 65 figure F.41 for a comparable single bookcase.