Furniture Treasury [Mostly of American Origin), being a record of designers, details of designs and structure, with lists of clock makers in America, and a glossary of furniture terms, richly illustrated (Volume III)
Framingham, Massachusetts: Old America Company, 1933. Hardcover. Brown cloth, homemade brown paper dust jacket, 550 pp., many BW illus.; weighs 4 lbs. VG (Homemade dj has some wear and has protected the book well; flyleaves are tanned and have protected the other pages, which are crisp and clear.). Item #150082
Intended to be either a stand-alone volume, or a supplement to Nutting's previous two-volume set, which consisted of 5000 illustrations in unpaginated books. He tells us here: "This volume is prepared to supplement the text of the former volumes, and to supply very full details, hitherto unavailable, on styles, dates, construction, origins; on great designers, on salient points regarding the entire broad field of articles of wood or iron used in American dwellings. ... This volume will not in any instance duplicate the material in the other volumes of Furniture Treasury, because that material is yet available. For that reason also this volume will be offered separately, if desired, or offered as the third volume to those who are for the first time procuring the Furniture Treasury. The only illustrations to appear here [supplied by Ernest John Donnelly] are sketches of construction of odd or rare objects, drawn, and included in the text to give the three volumes an even richer and definitive nature, though the 5000 illustrations in volumes one and two would seem to be a great plenty. Particularly the author has taken advantage, on the subject of clocks, of publishing a list of American makers extending nearly to 1700..." (directions and explanations) But don't let Mr. Nutting fool you. Donnelly's drawings are exquisite and offer both aesthetic and construction details. This book remains a stupendous reference and is still a classic.
Price: $120.00