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Virginia Museum, Published 1979. Hardcover, xxi, 194 pp.; 30 cm; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and maps; endpapers reproduce plates from Chippendale's Director. Forewords by R. Peter Mooz and Graham Hood.
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In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Maroon cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front and spine; mild shelf and edge wear, some spotting and soiling along edges of front and rear covers, some color loss along edges. Binding tight. Some dampstaining and soiling along bottom edge of text block; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Black pictorial dust jacket shows an architectural armchair with pedimented back; 1.5-inch tear at bottom edge of front panel and 1-inch tear at top edge of front panel, with creasing; smaller nicks, tears and creasing along edges; mild to moderate shelf wear with some color loss along edges and spine. Printed $24.00 price on front flap, with a Winterthur shop price sticker. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. A study of colonial cabinetmaking in Williamsburg and eastern Virginia by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's curator of furniture, completing a joint project with the Virginia Museum that began with the 1978 exhibition Furniture of Eastern Virginia: The Product of Mind and Hand. It catalogues 126 pieces with woods, measurements, provenance and owners. Part I attributes Williamsburg furniture to individual shops, including Peter Scott and the Anthony Hay shop under Hay, Benjamin Bucktrout and Edmund Dickinson, with chapters on ceremonial chairs and the Hay shop excavation. Part II surveys Norfolk, southeast Virginia, Richmond, Fredericksburg and the Eastern Shore. Includes maps of documented patronage for the four major Williamsburg makers and the Masonic Master's chair stamped by Bucktrout. This is the original 1979 Virginia Museum issue; Colonial Williamsburg reprinted the book in 1993. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I, The Furniture of Williamsburg: An Introduction to Williamsburg; An Early Williamsburg Furniture Group; The Peter Scott Shop; The Anthony Hay Shop (Masters of the Hay Shop; Products of the Hay Shop; The Hay Shop Excavation; Ceremonial Chairs); Williamsburg Case Pieces; Other Williamsburg Furniture; Part II, Furniture from Other Areas of Eastern Virginia: Norfolk; Southeast Virginia; Richmond; Fredericksburg; Origin Unknown; Eastern Shore; Appendix; List of References Cited; Index.