Description

Hardcover, large quarto bound in red cloth and publisher’s white pictorial dust-jacket. 247 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with hundreds of monochrome photographs and several pages in color. First edition. An important study of the furniture made in America between 1840 and 1880, including biographies of the leading cabinet-makers extant at the time. Special interest is paid to the manufacture of Wooton desks and the furniture of John Henry Belter. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A large book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage.