Description

Hardcover, large octavo in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 404 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. An important contribution to the study of American furniture, this single volume lists, alphabetically, more than 1,600 artisans, each accompanied by a brief biographical caption, if available. It is the first book to “catalog and illustrate all known American wood furniture pieces that bear the signatures, labels, brands, impressions, or ink-stamp marks of their makers.” No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.