[Rarebooks] FS: Antiques reference from our new catalog

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

A selection from our new MAY-June catalog,
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Beckerdite, Luke (ed.). AMERICAN FURNITURE 2005. Chipstone Foundation: 
2005. Features articles on: 'Early Rhode Island Turning' by Erik Kyle 
Gronning & Dennis Andrew Carr; 'Mannerism in Early American Furniture: 
Connoisseurship, Intention and Theatricality' by Glenn Adamson; 'Structure, 
Style, and Evolution: The Sack-Back Windsor Armchair' by David R. Pesuit; 
'New York Card Tables, 1800-1825' by Philip D. Zimmerman; 'Fashioning 
Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut 
River Valley Town' by Joshua W. Lane & Donald P. White III; plus book 
reviews. Card covers. 8.5"x11", 282 pages, color and b/w illustrations. 
New.  $60.00


Evans, Nancy Goyne. WINDSOR-CHAIR MAKING IN AMERICA. From Craft Shop to 
Consumer. Hanover; University Press of New England: 2006. During the late 
18th and first half of the 19th centuries, windsor chairmaking was an 
important American industry, and examples of the form could be found 
somewhere in almost every house and public building. "Drawing principally 
on original source materials, Nancy Goyne Evans presents an authoritative 
and absorbing historical picture of the vernacular chair shop and industry 
in this elegantly written and extensively illustrated book. Evans discusses 
everything from [shop] structure to tools and equipment, from shop 
personnel to power sources, and from raw materials to ornaments, both 
painted and stenciled. A meticulous chapter on marketing surveys the 
distribution of Windsor furniture to local, overland, coastal, and overseas 
markets, with particular emphasis on trade to the coastal south and the 
islands of the Caribbean, and addresses methods of doing business. Another 
section explores consumerism and the use of Windsor furniture in domestic 
and public settings." The book includes a paint color chart based on more 
than 1,200 references, a bibliography, and a hundreds of photos of the 
chairs themselves. Hardcover. 9.5"x12", 475 pages, loaded with color and 
b/we illustrations, dj. New.  $65.00


Frelinghuysen, Alice. AMERICAN PORCELAIN, 1770-1920. New York; Metropolitan 
Museum of Art/Abrams: 1989. A beautifully illustrated history of American 
porcelains, from the first wares of Bonnin and Morris and Tucker to the 
wondrous works of Robineau, McLaughlin and Lenox. Issued in conjunction 
with an important loan exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this 
book comprises an extended historical essay by Frelinghuysen, and a 
detailed and scholarly catalog of the pieces in the exhibition. Both 
sections are illustrated with superb color photographs. Hardcover. 
9.5"x11.5", 319 pages, color and b/w illustrations, dj; a nice copy with 
only light wear. [08936] $125.00


Heineken, Ty & Kiyoko. TANSU. TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CABINETRY.  New York; 
Weatherhill: 1985. 3rd prtg. "Tansu, the unique cabinetry of Japan, springs 
from a rich folk-art tradition that combines the skills of the wood joiner, 
lacquer artist, and ironsmith, all widely renowned for their fine 
craftsmanship. This book is divided into two parts, the first on history 
and the second on techniques." Hardcover. 7.5"x10.5", 247 pages, 27 color 
and 260 b/w illustrations, dj; jacket rubbed, some light wear, a little 
soil. [08949] $50.00


Kugelman, Thomas P., Alice K. Kugelman, et al. CONNECTICUT VALLEY FURNITURE 
BY ELIPHALET CHAPIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, 1750-1800. University Press of 
New England: 2005. "Connecticut Valley Furniture offers the first-ever 
systematic framework for classifying eighteenth-century Connecticut case 
furniture-high chests, dressing tables, desks, bureaus, chests-on-chests. 
Nearly two hundred illustrated entries present the findings of the Hartford 
Case Furniture Study, an extensive field study of over five hundred 
regional examples conducted over fourteen years by independent furniture 
scholars Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman and furniture consultant 
and restorer Robert Lionetti. The book defines four major style centers 
emanating from the towns of Wethersfield, East Windsor, and Colchester, 
Connecticut, as well the Springfield-Northampton region of Massachusetts. 
Over half of the illustrations feature unpublished or little-known 
furniture pieces discovered in private or small institutional collections, 
in addition to the extraordinary holdings of the Connecticut Historical 
Society Museum and other major collections. Complementing the text are 
period maps, an illustrated glossary, biographies of selected 
cabinetmakers, and six interpretive essays. Hardcover. 10"x12", 540 pages, 
445 color and b/w illustrations, dj. New. $75.00


Michaan, Steven. AMERICAN FISH DECOYS. FishDecoy: 2004. "From the earliest 
inhabitants of the American Continent to the boatwrights and carpenters who 
earned their livings on the shores of the Great Lakes during the 
Depression, fish decoys have sustained the livelihoods of spear fishermen 
during the coldest winters. Beautifully carved, fancifully painted and 
extraordinarily effective, these replicas of fish were designed to attract 
and lure fish within reach of patiently waiting spear-fisherman. This 
beautiful volume shows over one hundred masterworks including many decoys 
from the first major museum exhibition of ice fishing decoys at the Museum 
of American Folk Art in New York. Steven Michaan is a collector and avid 
fisherman. He spent a decade learning about and collecting the best 
examples of fish decoys that were available. American folk art experts 
recognized the value of his work and his collection became the basis for 
the first major museum show devoted to fish and decoys. The exhibit, 
"Beneath the Ice: The Art of the Fish Decoy," was held by the Museum of 
American Folk Art in New York in 1989". Hardcover. 12"x10", 208 pages, many 
color illustrations. New. [90196] $95.00


MINUTES OF THE SECOND WEDGWOOD INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR. CooperUnion Museum 
for the Arts of Decoration: 1957. Essays on Wedgwood topics. Softcover. 
5.5"x8.25", 68 pages, b/w illustrations; light wear. [08991] $65.00


Rickard, Jonathan. MOCHA AND RELATED DIPPED-WARES, 1770-1939. Hanover; 
University Press of New England: 2006. This is a colorful explosion of a 
book, packed with beautiful photographs that vividly capture the colors and 
wild designs on this distinctive pottery. But it's not all photos- author 
Jonathan Rickard provides a mighty and solid text to back up the 
illustrations, exploring the history, makers and styles of these ceramics 
in England, America and France. Long thought of as a Victorian ceramic, 
Rickard shows that the style actually dates from the late 18th century. 
There are many chapters exploring the various patterns and decorating 
techniques, and the book finishes off with a chapter on the potters and 
potteries of Mocha and their marks. An exuberant, important study of an 
under-documented type of pottery. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 178 pages, profusely 
illustrated in color and b/w, dj; bibliography. New. $65.00

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folk art & other subjects are featured in our new MAY-June catalog,
viewable on our website-
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