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Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century
by Whitehill, Walter Muir, ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-/Good (light wear to block, pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has moderate wear with small tears)
- ISBN 10
- 0813911257
- ISBN 13
- 9780813911250
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1974. Hardcover. VG-/Good (light wear to block, pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has moderate wear with small tears). Navy cloth with gilt lettering, golden pictorial DJ. xvi, 317 pp. 174 bw plates. Compiled from a conference held by the Colonial Society of MA., May 11-12, 1972. Chapters include "The Boston Furniture Industry 1720 - 1740" by Brock Jobe; "Boston Jappaned Furniture" by Dean A. Fales, Jr.; "Boston's Colonial Jappanners: The Documentary Record" by Sinclair H. Hitchings; "Boston Blockfront Furniture" by Margaretta Markle Lovell; "The Bombe Furniture of Boston" by Gilbert T. Vincent; "Ornamental Carving on Boston Furniture of the Chippendale Style" by Mary Ellen Hayward Yehia; "Benjamin Frothingham" by Richard H. Randall, Jr.; and "New England Timbers" by Gordon Saltar. Appendices include 18th century Boston furniture craftsmen compiled by Myrna Kay and further reading suggestions regarding individual craftsmen. Includes a fold-out map entitled "A New Plan of Boston From Actual Surveysby Osgood Carleton..." Includes laid-in erratum.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26183
- Title
- Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century
- Author
- Whitehill, Walter Muir, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-/Good (light wear to block, pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has moderate wear with small tears)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0813911257
- ISBN 13
- 9780813911250
- Publisher
- University Press of Virginia
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville, VA
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- American Decorative Arts ; Boston Furniture ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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