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When we review a book on furniture or woodworking, it is with a different emphasis than most. Our perspective is that of woodworkers building fine period furniture. In books on furniture, the more photos, from as many angles as possible, the better. Also, pictures of the inside, back, bottom, or any other not normally seen view are exciting to us. For a woodworking book to be interesting, it has to accurately describe how pieces were originally made, not how you can do it today with a biscuit joiner. Surprisingly, there are few woodworking books that meet this criteria.
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American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection Gerald W. R. Ward Few books on American furniture are considered as important as this one. This book is one of the best museum catalogs of furniture ever written.
485 pages. Hard cover. Printed in USA. |
| Our Price: $149.00 |
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American Furniture 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994 Edited by Luke Beckerdite This is a journal, published once a year by the Chipstone Foundation, focusing on scholarly studies of American furniture. The 1993 and 1995 issues are now out of print.
Soft cover. Printed in USA. List Price $60.00 |
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American Furniture 1996-2007 | set of 12 books | $579.95 |
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American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1. Early Colonial Period
Frances Safford The Metropolitan Museum of Art has what is perhaps the greatest collection of American furniture in the country. This book is a comprehensive study of the furniture in that collection from the early colonial period, the 17th Century and William & Mary periods (early 18th Century).
Hard cover. 451 pages. Printed in Spain. List Price $90.00. |
| Our Price: $79.95 |
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American Furniture at Chipstone Rodriguez Roque Chipstone is a museum in Wisconsin, and the base of operations for the Chipstone Foundation. Chipstone is reknown not only for the fabulous collection of 18th Century American furniture but also for its extensive collections of decorative arts. This book is a traditional museum catalog covering the furniture holdings of the Chipstone Foundation.
Hard cover. Printed in USA. List Price $60.00. |
| Our Price: $55.00 |
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American Furniture - The Federal Period Charles F. Montgomery The incomparable Winterthur Museum collection of beautiful and distinct Federal period American furniture is described and illustrated in this book, first published in 1966.
Hard cover. 508 pages. List Price $75.00 |
| Our Price: $68.00 |
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American Furniture - Queen Anne & Chippendale Periods Joseph Downs From among the world-renowned treasures at the Winterthur Museum, the author selected 400 outstanding examples of...
Hard cover. 500 pages. List Price $75.00 |
| Our Price: $68.00 |
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American Tables and Looking Glases David L. Barquist This book is a catalog of the Yale University collections, both the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection and others. This is a landmark book that is as important today as when it was first published.
423 pages. Hard cover. Printed in USA. |
| Our Price: $99.00 |
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American Windsor Chairs Nacy Goyne Evans Nancy Evans has dedicated years to researching the American Windsor style. This book is the most comprehensive and scholarly study of Windsor chairs ever written.
744 Pages. Hard cover. Printed in Japan. List Price $125 |
| Our Price: $89.00 |
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American Windsor Furniture Nacy Goyne Evans Nancy Evans has dedicated years to researching the American Windsor style. This book covers all of the forms that do not fall neatly into the Windsor chair category.
256 Pages. Hard cover. Printed in Japan. List Price $65 |
| Our Price: $59.00 |
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Arts and Crafts Furniture John Andrews This is a fully illustrated history of the highly influential Arts and Crafts movement.
280 Pages. Hard cover. Printed in China. List Price $79.50 |
| Our Price: $58.00 |
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The Bay and the River: 1600 - 1900 This book was published by Boston University in conjunction with the "Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife" in 1981. This book is the conference proceedings. This book is particularly interesting to people who have an indepth interest in New England furniture.
144 pages. Soft cover. Printed in USA. |
| Our Price: $21.00 |
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The Brass Book Peter, Nancy, and Herbert Schiffer An interesting book on brass made items, but the reproduction of an 18th century Birmingham catalog for furniture hardware makes it a must have for students of early American and British furniture.
445 pages. Hard cover. Printed in USA. List Price $60.00. |
| Our Price: $54.00 |
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British Long Case Clocks Derek Roberts The definitive book on English "Grandfather" clocks. Lavishly produced with hundreds of photos, this book is a wealth of ideas for anybody planning to make a tall case clock. 373 pages. Hard cover. Printed in USA. List Price $95. For large image and more info Click Here! |
| Our Price: $83.00 |
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Connecticut River Valley Doorways - An Eighteenth-Century Flowering Amelia F. Miller If early New England homes turn you on you will love this book. It is dedicated solely to the study of the doorways on these houses.
148 pages. Soft cover. Printed in USA. |
| Our Price: $19.00 |
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Continental Church Furniture in England Charles Tracy This is another lavish book from the Antique Collector's Club publishers. If you are interested in Medieval furniture, you should get this book.
Hard cover. 295 pages Printed in England. List Price $99.50 |
| Our Price: $79.00 |
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The Dictionary of English Furniture - 3 Volumes Revised Edition by Ralph Edwards The first edition of this work was published 1924-27. It was instantly recognised as the primary reference on the evolution of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian...
Each volume approx. 380 pages. Hard cover. Printed in USA. |
| Our Price: $185.00 |
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English Furniture 1660-1714 - From Charles II to Queen Anne Adam Bowett This book offers a very detailed study of an often neglected period of English furniture. Offers a wealth of information that should be...
Hard cover. 323 pages. Printed in Italy. List Price $89.00 |
| Our Price: $76.00 |
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English Country Furniture 1500-1900 David Knell The literature on English period furniture has largely been dominated by a preoccupation with that of the rich and upper classes. This attitude is now regarded as unacceptable...
415 pages. Hard cover. Printed in England. List Price $89.50 |
| Our Price: $75.00 |
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18th Century English Furniture - The Norman Adams Collection Christopher Stevens & Stewart Whittington This is a catalog of the best furniture sold over a period of many years by one of London's most prestigious antiques dealers.
Hard cover. Printed in Great Britain. List Price $89.50 |
| Our Price: $75.00 |
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The English Regional Chair Bernard D. Cotton This book is on English Windsor style chairs. The English style of Windsor was similar to the American style, but with definite differences. Whichever style you prefer, this book is important...
511 pages. Hard cover. Printed in England on Scottish paper. List Price $99.50 |
| Our Price: $85.00 |
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The English Smile - English Furniture and The Renaissance 1490-1590 Michael Dann 26 pieces of carved furniture are closely examined; none has been previously published. Numerous close-up photographs of each piece are shown and the accompanying text describes the carving, the construction and methods of dating.
154 pages. Soft cover. Printed in England. |
| Our Price: $65.00 |
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English Vernacular Furniture 1750-1900 Christopher Gilbert This is one of those rare books that focuses on the furniture that was originally made for the rest of us, rather than the high-style pieces that have come to define the furniture of their period.
Hard cover. Printed in Italy. List Price $75 |
| Our Price: $68.00 |
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European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Highlights of the Collection This beautiful volume features 103 superb pieces of European furniture dating from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. Includes a CD-ROM with 358 additional color images.
Hard cover. 292 pages. List Price $85.00 |
| Our Price: $65.00 |
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Fine Craftsmanship in Wood Betty Norbury This 192 page book is a catalog of modern woodworking in Great Britain. Covers furniture, sculpture, turnery, toys, automata, musical instruments, decorative boxes and other woodwork.
Hard cover. Printed in USA. List Price $19.95 |
| Our Price: $18.00 |
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Finnish Modern Design - Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997 Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine This book examines the outstanding design achievements of Finland over the last seven decades, focusing on the central...
352 pages. 300 illustrations, 200 in color. Soft Cover. List Price $45 |
| Our Price: $33.95 |
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The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820 - 3 Volumes Rauschenberg/Bivins When John Bivins died last year it was a devastating loss not only to his friends and family, but to all of us who are interested in American furniture of the South. John was a rare furniture scholar..
Hard cover. Printed in USA. List Price $325.00 |
| Our Price: $229.00 |
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Furniture for the Dream King (Fairy-Tale Monarch) Afra Schick Anton Pössenbacher (1842-1920), cabinet-maker to the Bavarian court in Munich, was head of one of the largest late nineteenth-century German makers of luxury furnishings.
Hard cover. 240 pages. List Price $95.00 |
| Our Price: $79.00 |
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John Channon and Brass Inlaid Furniture Gilbert & Murdoch The only book that we know of on this specialized furniture form, it is an important scholarly study for serious furniture student.
Hard cover. List Price $70 |
| Our Price: $59.00 |
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John Townsend Newport Cabinetmaker Morrison Heckscher Newport furniture is perennially popular with collector's and craftsmen. This book is a must own for serious woodworkers as well as furniture scholars.
225 pages. Hard cover. Printed in Singapore. List Price $75.00. |
| Our Price: $67.95 |
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The Longcase Clock Tom Robinson A revised edition of this standard work of reference on British longcase clocks contains a completely new chapter on recent discoveries and even more color illustrations.
491 pages. Hard cover. Printed in England. List Price $89.50. |
| Our Price: $69.00 |
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Long Island is My Nation - The Decorative Arts and Craftsmen 1640 - 1830.
Dean F. Failey In this second edition much new information has been added, and this remains the definitive book on Long Island furniture.
Hard cover. Printed in USA. List Price $65.00. |
| Our Price: $39.95 |
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Mallett Millennium Lanto Synge This book provides an attractive approach in explaining furniture history in general, with a superb anthology of examples. These are drawn from the archives of Mallett of New Bond Street, London.
360 pages. Hard cover. Printed in England. List Price $89.00 |
| Our Price: $69.00 |
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New England Furniture at Winterthur, the Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods Nancy Evans and Nancy Goyen This recently released book is the first book on Winterthur's furniture since the publication of Down's landmark work in 1952.
514 pages. Hard cover. Printed in Canada. List Price $85 |
| Our Price: $89.95 |
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New York Furniture At The New York State Museum John L. Scherer This is a very broad overview of furniture that was made in New York and is now in the collection of the New York State Museum. This is not a book for construction details . This book, which is copyright 1984, is an old fashioned museum catalog. It has some pictures of labels, but no emphasis whatesoever is placed on construction details. Still, it is a very important referenence for identifying the styles of New York state made furniture.
Soft cover. 142 pages. Printed in USA. |
| Our Price: $34.95 |
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Oak Furniture, The British Tradition Victor Chinnery Simply the most comprehensive book on British oak furniture ever written. Pictures cover a tremendous range of pieces from different periods and styles.
Hard cover. 618 pages. Printed in Great Britain. List Price $99.50. |
| Our Price: $85.00 |
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The 1772 Philadelphia Furniture Price Book Introduction by Alexandra Kirtley The original copy of this book was recently discovered and caused quite a stir in the antique furniture world.
Soft cover. List Price $21.95 |
| Our Price: $19.95 |
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Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production This book was published in conjunction with the "Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife" in 1998. This book is the conference proceedings. Makes for very interesting reading.
256 pages. Soft cover. Printed in USA |
| Our Price: $19.00 |
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Samuel McIntire - Carving An American Style Dean T. Lahikainen Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style is the first book to examine the full range of his carving career and to put it into a broader perspective in terms of the work of his contemporaries and other decorative traditions of the Federal period.
Hard cover. 304 pages. List Price $75.00 |
| Our Price: $69.95 |
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The Shaker Legacy Christian Becksvoort The heart of The Shaker Legacy is an extensive visual tour of more than 140 classic Shaker pieces, many of which have never been previously photographed for publication.
Soft cover. 240 pages. List Price $24.95 |
| Our Price: $22.00 |
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Southern Furniture 1680-1830
The Colonial Williamsburg Collection Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown The furniture and the photos in the book are excellent, but it is in all of the photos of construction details that this book excels.
Hard cover. Out of print, only a few left in stock. |
| Our Price: $95.00 |
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Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director 1754 An exact facsimile of the 1754 first edition of Thomas Chippendale’s Director, faithfully reprinted for the first time in an unnumbered limited edition of 400 copies.
Size: 10 1/2" x 17 1/4". Hard cover. 368 pages. List Price $275.00 |
| Our Price: $195.00 |
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Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England Geoffrey Beard This richly illustrated book is a history of the upholstery trade in Britain over three hundred years. It surveys the changing styles...
Hard Cover. 360 pages. 376 illustrations, 220 in color. |
| Our Price: $79.00 |
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Victorian & Edwardian Furniture John Andrews This book contains 1,100 illustrations of all types of furniture, in styles from Gothic Revival to Edwardian Sheraton and Art Nouveau. It explains many of the mysteries behind the most...
Hard cover. Printed in England. 296 pages. List Price $59.00 |
| Our Price: $45.00 |
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Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture - 3 Volumes Peter Hughes The Wallace Collection has the finest collection of eighteenth-century furniture outside France. Numbering over 500 pieces, it includes furniture by the greatest Parisian cabinet makers...
Soft cover in a hard slip case. 1168 pages. List Price $165.00 |
| Our Price: $139.00 |
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The Windsor Chair, An Illustrated Celebration Michael Harding-Hill Unlike other scholarly tombs written on Windsor chairs, this book makes no attempt to be a comprehensive study, instead focusing on 18th Century chairs. This book is primarily a photographic...
208 pages. Hard Cover. Printed in Great Britain. List Price $49.50 |
| Our Price: $44.00 |
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Worldly Goods - The Arts of Early Pennsylvania 1680-1758 Jack Lindsey This is a museum catalog published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
266 pages. |
