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
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0300052405
- ISBN 13
- 9780300052404
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992. Hardcover. VG/VG. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrated dust jacket, 423 pp., 30 color and 473 bw plates. 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 - VG/VG
- 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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