Description

Large format paperback, bound in stiff black pictorial wraps. 301 pages. Bibliography, Index. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. The definitive annual on American furniture design, use, production and appreciation. Contains articles on: ‘A Table’s Tale: Craft, Art and Opportunity in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia’; ‘The Account Book of Benjamin Baker’; ‘High Craft Along the Mohawk: Early Woodwork from the Albany Area of New York’; ‘John Singleton Copley’s Furniture and the Art of Invention’; ‘Southern Sophistication on the Early Frontier: The Inlaid Furniture of Washington County, Ohio, 1788-1825’; ‘Opulence Abroad: Honoré Lannuier’s Gilded Furniture in Trinidad de Cuba’. Also included are two book reviews. No previous ownership marks. Slight tear to upper cover along top edge, else a very goo clean copy, square, and unmarked. Good+. A heavy book, Priority and International order will require additional postage.