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Two volumes. pp. xxvii, 846. Highly illustrated. Many illustrations and pages printed in color. Top edges foxed. 4to. 31 cm. Original bindings of blue cloth decorated in gold and red. The book design and decorative typography was executed by the author, and it was printed and bound in Japan. This grand publication made available to the general public a collection of 17,000 carefully documented drawings and photographs executed by artists and scholars working under the Works Project Administration. The Index of American Design documents a rich decorative and functional heritage embodied within early American furniture, ceramics, glass, silver, pewter, textiles, household goods, and other objects. There are few better illustrated resources to the wide range of art, industry, trade, decoration and ornament in the U.S. PA 39