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Tudor Publishing Company, Published 1935. Hardcover, 183 pp.; 25 cm; new edition (November 1935); illustrated with 122 black-and-white illustrations on plates, frontispiece, pictorial endpaper charts.
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In Good condition, no dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with blind-ruled border on front cover, gilt lettering on spine; moderate shelf and edge wear, mild damp staining to fore-edge of boards, spine and rear cover, some spotting and soiling to covers, spine and board edges toned and faded. Binding tight. Endpapers toned; pages otherwise unmarked; fore-edges untrimmed. Social and biographical history of American furniture makers from the Pilgrim century to the mid-nineteenth century, first published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1930 and reissued in this Tudor edition; the material first appeared serially in Furniture Manufacturer. Chapters cover Pilgrim-era joiners, the Newport Goddard and Townsend families and other American Chippendale makers, Duncan Phyfe (his New York shops, household inventory and pieces still held by his descendants), Phyfe's contemporaries including Samuel McIntire and the Egertons, Windsor and fancy chairmaking, the Yankee clockmakers (Willard, Terry, Thomas, Jerome), and furniture makers who turned to politics, among them Thomas Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas and William M. "Boss" Tweed. Plates drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Museum, the Essex Institute and other collections; endpapers chart chief American cabinetmakers and the years they worked against English styles and historical events. Contents: The Pilgrim Century; American Chippendales; Duncan Phyfe, the Great; Phyfe's Contemporaries; Plain and Fancy Chairmaking; The Yankee Clockmakers; From Furniture to Politics; Pictorial Outline of American Furniture; Chronological List of Furniture Makers; Bibliography; Index.