MENNONITE FURNITURE The Ontario Tradition in York County

Toronto: James Lorimer & Co.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888621485 . Ex-library book in good condition, laminated cover and usual stamps & stickers. Light edgewear (a little moreso to corners) , light soiling, small tear on front. Interior pages are tight & clean, occasional page creasing. B/w photos. 95 pages. "Mennonites are among the earliest settlers of nineteenth-century Ontario. A law-abiding, deeply religious and pacifist people, they travelled from Pennsylvania by wagon and foot to settle in the Niagara area around Kitchener-Waterloo and in York County north of Toronto. To Canada the Mennonites brought a long rural tradition of architecture, furniture-making and folk art. These ideas inspired the houses and farms they built, . And the production of a great variety of furniture, in a style rooted in Germany and Pennsyvania and modified with the Ontario experience. Authors Musson and Nykor concentrate on the furniture of the York County area, and draw parallels and contrasts with the predominant styles in other Ontario communities. Also discussed are the homes, farms and churches of the Mennonite community. These too are distinctive in style while unmistakeably part of the larger nineteenth-century Ontario tradition" (400) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .