Beckerdite, Luke (editor) — American Furniture 2001

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Chipstone Foundation and University Press of New England, 2001. Softcover. Black with color pictorial wraps. xiii, 279 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. "Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture, design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted excluseivly to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present." - from back of book Includes six essays, in addition to book reviews; Essays include: "When Good Cabinetmakers Made Bad Furniture: The Career and Work of David Evans" by Eleanore P. Gadsden, "A Salem Cabinetmakers' Price Book" by Dean Thomas Lahikainen, "Two Early Eighteenth-Century Schranke: Rare Survivals of the German Joiner's Art in the Hudson River Valley" by Peter M. Kenny, and others. VG (very minor shelf wear) .