Johnson, Marilyn, et al.
19th-Century America. Furniture and other Decorative Arts.
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Graphic Society: 1970. An Exhibition at the Met., with other material by Marvin Schwartz and Suzanne Boorsch and an introduction by Berry Tracy. "This blockbuster exhibition was the first to survey the major styles of nineteenth-century American decorative arts (and) stimulated enormous interest and subsequent scholarship" (Ames). Focuses most heavily on furniture, but with silver, glass and ceramics well represented. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", about 250 pages, color and b/w illustrations, dj; jacket rubbed and somewhat worn, otherwise a nice copy.
$85.00
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