Montgomery

1966 · Best.-Nr. 126928 — New York: Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. VG/G minor shelf wear dust jacket edges show wear. Blue cloth boards with gold gilt spine lettering and illustration blue and color pictorial dust jacket with gold lettering. 497 pp. Hundreds of bw illustrations. Signed by author. "In five chapters and twenty essays the author introduces the reader to the world of Federal furniture with emphasis on the way it was made and used in the new nation the art and mystery of connoisseurship and attribution and secrets of the cabinetmakers' price books which have never before been revealed. Here is not only an encyclopedia of American furniture of the Federal period but a mine of information for everyone interested in the social and cultural history of the formative years of the United States." - dust jacket description. Viking Press hardcover books