Beckerdite, Luke (editor) — American Furniture 2003

Hanover, NH, The Chipstone Foundation and University Press of New England, 2003. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. x, 311 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Some of the essays included are: "Early Carving in the South Carolina Low Country: The Career and Work of Henry Burnett ", by John Bivins, Jr.; "Everyday Things: From Rolling Pins to Trundle Beds," by Nancy Goyne Evans ; "Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism," by Sarah Neale Fayen; "Provenance, Patronage, and Perception: The Morris Suite of Baltimore Painted Furniture," by Lance Humphries; "The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture," by Edward S. Cooke, Jr.; "From New Bedford to New York to Rio and Back: The Life and Times of Elisha Blossom Jr. Artisan of the New Republic," by Peter M. Kenny. Also includes book reviews. A lovely book. VG- (Slight scuffs to covers, slight tinges of red along bottom book block from a previous shelf; interior quite clean.) .