Bordes, Marilynn Johnson — 12 Great Quilts from the American Wing

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. Softcover. Red illustrated stapled wraps with black and white lettering. Unpaginated. 12 bw and color illsustrations. "Twelve American quilts spanning the twelve decades from 1800 to 1920 formed an exhibition upon which this book is based. Although these quilts represent the two techniques of patchwork (both applique and piecing), a wide range of patterns, and a number of geographic area, they have been selected not as typical quilts or as a complete representation of the period but, insofar as possible, as the best of their kind visually. They are arranged chronologically, and in this equence show some changes in design and taste as well as in technology." - from catalogue introduction. Good+ (shelf wear and rubbing, all pages clear and intact; may be ex-museum/gallery w/ taped red classification to lower spines. may have a few instances of underlining) .