American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in The Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum

New York: Macmillan Company, 1952. first printing, special leather binding. Hardcover. VG- wear to spine and lower corners of leather cover. Some tanning to pages. Red ribbon bookmark intact. Contents clean and tight. Brown leather with gilt lettering on spine, five raised bands with gilt accents. Top of page block gilt. Green/gold marbled end-papers. xl / [approx 450 pp] 5 color plates, 386 b+w. Attractive specially leather-bound edition with foreward by Henry Francis DuPont. Text with each illustration.

From the dj of hardcover edition... "The museum at Winterthur, Delaware, contains the largest and richest collection of American furniture (truncated) in the world. From among these treasures Joseph Downs selected for reproduction in this book 400 outstanding examples of furniture from the Queen Anne and Chippendale periods, when the cabinetmakers of New England, New York, Philadelphia, and the South were at the height of their achievement. (Inventory #: 164985)