Rural Household Inventories: Establishing the Names, Uses and Furnishings of Rooms in the Colonial New England Home 1675-1775
Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1964. Hardcover. Navy cloth with gold spine lettering. 306 pp. with 14 bw plates. Inscribed by the author to Eleanor Fayerweather. NF; only blemish is a thumb smudge on page edges when book is closed. Else, pages as new and binding clean and tight. Item #141517
With 109 household inventories reproduced room by room - the total number recorded for rural towns in Suffolk County, Massachusetts (of which Boston is the county seat) in the century covered by the book. Amazing lists of historic possessions with English prices and spellings. Fayerweather, to whom the book is inscribed, was from an old Massachusetts family and became a curator of costumes. She donated several items to various museums and also was a professor at RISD, creating and teaching the first course on textile design, in the 1940s.
OCLC: 1274533
Price: $230.00