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DAR Museum, Published 1987. Paperback, 46 pp.; 30 cm; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs of quilts, details and portraits, a map of Virginia in 1820, an appendix of printed textiles and tables. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the DAR Museum, Washington, D.C., July 20 to October 18, 1987; design by Grafik Communications; printing by Garamond-Pridemark Press; photography by Helga Photo Studio.
In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers (front: appliqued quilt with pieced border by Catherine (Parker) Custis, 1810-1820; rear: pieced and stuffed quilt by Ludwell (Harrison) Goosley and Susan (Goosley) Campbell, 1820-1837) with mild bumping and creasing to edges and corners and mild overall shelf and edge wear. Slight upturn to upper corner; does not lie entirely flat. Binding tight. Blue endpapers with quilt-block device. Pages clean and unmarked. Exhibition catalogue of the earliest surviving quilts and counterpanes made in Virginia, 1780 to 1840, from Tidewater, Piedmont and northern Valley counties. Allen's essay draws on newspaper advertisements, merchants' records, diaries, letters and the estate inventories of York and Loudoun counties to show how Virginians acquired, made and used bedcovers, and how quilt ownership tracked wealth and slaveholding. Each catalogue entry has a full-page photograph with maker, county, dates, materials, stitch counts, dimensions, lender and family history. Includes quilts by Catherine (Parker) Custis, Mary (Willing) Byrd of Westover, Martha Parke (Custis) Peter of Tudor Place and Amelia (Heiskell) Lauck (inscribed 1823), lent by the Valentine Museum, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Shelburne Museum, Kenmore Association and private owners. Appendix of block-, plate- and roller-printed textiles with comparisons from Winterthur and Colonial Williamsburg; end notes; tables of textiles available and of quilt ownership in York and Loudoun counties.