Hard Cover/Brodart Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 7 x 10. Buried in elusive records - account books, diaries, letters, histories - is the story of the lives and works of the cabinetmakers of America. The author has studied, traveled, and searched for many years and has gather together their story for the first time in ONE volume of 146 pages. She traces history in the 17th to the early 19th Centuries along with facts as when and where the earliest furniture was made in the New Workd, what it was, and how the development of cabinetmaking has had a direct relationship to the culture and needs of various groups. Facts about HUNDREDS of cabinetmakers, where they were located, personal data, characteristic features of their craft, and where their work may be seen today. Alphabetically arranged, carefully document, these biographies contain a great deal of fresh materials to bring together an exhaustive file on these men! Some b/w photos throughout...Conditon: Excellent. Inside front cover has stain where either a bookmark or card was. NOT an ex-libris!

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