Author: Margaret Berwind Schiffer
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft tradition. The settlers included predominently English Quakers for the first half century, after which numbers of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Welsh Baptists, Irish Quakers, and Germans became equally important and, later, had major influence in the county. The hand made furniture from the county has certain distinguishing features which are explained in the well-researched text, and illustrated in 175 photographs. Hundreds of cabinetmakers and other craftsmen are profiled in detail from their contemporary public records. The work is an important reference for furniture and social historians alike.
Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Berwind Schiffer
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft tradition. The settlers included predominently English Quakers for the first half century, after which numbers of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Welsh Baptists, Irish Quakers, and Germans became equally important and, later, had major influence in the county. The hand made furniture from the county has certain distinguishing features which are explained in the well-researched text, and illustrated in 175 photographs. Hundreds of cabinetmakers and other craftsmen are profiled in detail from their contemporary public records. The work is an important reference for furniture and social historians alike.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft tradition. The settlers included predominently English Quakers for the first half century, after which numbers of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Welsh Baptists, Irish Quakers, and Germans became equally important and, later, had major influence in the county. The hand made furniture from the county has certain distinguishing features which are explained in the well-researched text, and illustrated in 175 photographs. Hundreds of cabinetmakers and other craftsmen are profiled in detail from their contemporary public records. The work is an important reference for furniture and social historians alike.
American Windsor Furniture
Author: Nancy Goyne Evans
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555950644
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The indispensable companion volume to Hudson Hills Press' phenomenal American Windsor Chairs.
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555950644
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The indispensable companion volume to Hudson Hills Press' phenomenal American Windsor Chairs.
Windsor-chair Making in America
Author: Nancy Goyne Evans
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584654937
Category : Furniture making
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
The definitive work on the production of Windsor furniture, from one of America's premier authorities.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584654937
Category : Furniture making
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
The definitive work on the production of Windsor furniture, from one of America's premier authorities.
A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes
Author: Thomas L. Elliott
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493054015
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
With its initial publication in 1983, A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes profoundly transformed the emphasis and direction of tool collecting. After several years of meticulous research, Thomas L. Elliott has completely redesigned, revised, and expanded this fifth edition to include entries and information accumulated since the fourth edition. The heart of this guide is the alphabetical directory of plane makers and dealers. This fifth edition now includes: 4590 biographical entries; 6160 imprint illustrations; 3030 wedge outlines; and over 3000 individual ratings for judging relative scarcity and value. Also included are sections providing insights helpful in buying and selling planes, an illustrated glossary of plane terms and styles, and an extensive bibliography for further research. This book is useful to both the beginner and the advanced collector, to historians and genealogists, and to all other with an interest in the subject.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493054015
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
With its initial publication in 1983, A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes profoundly transformed the emphasis and direction of tool collecting. After several years of meticulous research, Thomas L. Elliott has completely redesigned, revised, and expanded this fifth edition to include entries and information accumulated since the fourth edition. The heart of this guide is the alphabetical directory of plane makers and dealers. This fifth edition now includes: 4590 biographical entries; 6160 imprint illustrations; 3030 wedge outlines; and over 3000 individual ratings for judging relative scarcity and value. Also included are sections providing insights helpful in buying and selling planes, an illustrated glossary of plane terms and styles, and an extensive bibliography for further research. This book is useful to both the beginner and the advanced collector, to historians and genealogists, and to all other with an interest in the subject.
A New Nation of Goods
Author: David Jaffee
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812222008
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812222008
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.
Antiques
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2440
Book Description
The Windsor Style in America
Author: Charles Santore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chairs
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chairs
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"Filled with brilliant insights and tantalizing leads."--
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"Filled with brilliant insights and tantalizing leads."--
Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Berwind Schiffer
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft tradition. The settlers included predominently English Quakers for the first half century, after which numbers of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Welsh Baptists, Irish Quakers, and Germans became equally important and, later, had major influence in the county. The hand made furniture from the county has certain distinguishing features which are explained in the well-researched text, and illustrated in 175 photographs. Hundreds of cabinetmakers and other craftsmen are profiled in detail from their contemporary public records. The work is an important reference for furniture and social historians alike.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft tradition. The settlers included predominently English Quakers for the first half century, after which numbers of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Welsh Baptists, Irish Quakers, and Germans became equally important and, later, had major influence in the county. The hand made furniture from the county has certain distinguishing features which are explained in the well-researched text, and illustrated in 175 photographs. Hundreds of cabinetmakers and other craftsmen are profiled in detail from their contemporary public records. The work is an important reference for furniture and social historians alike.