Antique American Furniture 1620-Present / Rare Book

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Given 100 color pictures and 1,300 black-and-white photographs, this rare comprehensive text is a definitive pictorial guide to the identification of

AMERICAN FURNITURE 1620 TO THE PRESENT . By Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates. Richard Marek Publishers, NY, 1981 First Edition.

Profusely illustrated, this book covers by chapter: The Beginnings; The William & Mary Period (1690-1725); Queen Anne & Early Georgian (1725-1760); Japanned Furniture (1710-1820); The Chippendale Period (1750-1780); Neoclassicism (1780-1835); Away from the Mainstream; Victorian America (1830-1900); The Frontier and Vernacular Traditions (1800-1850); Craft Revival, Reaction & Reform (1870-1930); and Modern to Contemporary (1917-1980). This book has a text which places furniture in its social and historical context and includes not only the furniture centers of New York, New England, and Pennsylvania, but also furniture of the Southwest; furniture made in Dutch, Spanish, French, and Norwegian settlements; furniture made in religious enclaves or as a part of social and aesthetic movements; furniture, that new today, will become classic tomorrow. Furniture makers include Townsend, Frothingham, Dunlaps, Belter, Meeks, Galusha, Roux, Wooten, Stickley, Greene and Greene, and many more. The narrative in this text is rich; the photography is sharp. This is a must-buy book for the serious collector, dealer, curator, or historian of American antique furniture.

Heavy 9.2" x 10.2" hardback with dust cover in very good+ condition.  561 pages. 

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