Antique Country Furniture of North America and Details of Its Construction
By John G. Shea.
Description
This superbly illustrated book, written by John G. Shea, a leading authority on American furniture, traces the characteristic styles of regional furniture-New England Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Pennsylvania German, French Canadian, Shaker, Connecticut Hitchcock, Southern Plantation, Maine Curiosities, Ohio Zoar, Norwegian American, and Texas-German. Categories of furniture are compared piece-by-piecechairs, rockers, tables, beds, cupboards, and many more. Full-page measured drawings are given for over ninety country classics, and details of the distinctive joinery practices...
ISBN(s)
0442251564, 9780442251567
