American Tables and Looking Glasses in The Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
by Barquist, David L
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- Hardcover
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- Good+. cloth covers lightly spotted; shelf-wear to lower edges. foxing to textblock fore-edge, affects pg edges. dustjacket has
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- 0300052405
- ISBN 13
- 9780300052404
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992. Hardcover. Good+. cloth covers lightly spotted; shelf-wear to lower edges. foxing to textblock fore-edge, affects pg edges. dustjacket has edge-wear; sunning to edges; foxing to fore-edge; foxing to interior.. Blue cloth with illustrated dj. 423 pp., 30 color and 473 bw plates. Pages clean & bright. Contains detailed entries on 140 tables, 22 related onjects, and 47 looking glasses ranging in age from 1670s to 1990. Includes essays by Gerald W.R. Ward (The Intersections of Life: Tables and Their Social Role) and Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett (Looking Glasses in America, 1700-1855). Also includes important reference to 43 faked, altered or misidentified objects in a special section. An invaluable reference with valuable and authoritative scholarly research presented in a pleasurable and easy to read fashion. This volume is one of the four volumes documenting the Garvan Collection at Yale. Its a large and important collection and little of it is on display.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
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- Title
- American Tables and Looking Glasses in The Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
- Author
- Barquist, David L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+. cloth covers lightly spotted; shelf-wear to lower edges. foxing to textblock fore-edge, affects pg edges. dustjacket has
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0300052405
- ISBN 13
- 9780300052404
- Publisher
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- American Decorative Arts ; American Furniture ; ;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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