American Tables and Looking Glasses in The Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992. Hardcover. Blue cloth with illustrated dj. 423 pp., 30 color and 473 bw plates. Good+. cloth covers lightly spotted; shelf-wear to lower edges. foxing to textblock fore-edge, affects pg edges. dustjacket has edge-wear; sunning to edges; foxing to fore-edge; foxing to interior. Item #178437
ISBN: 9780300052404
Pages clean & bright. 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.
Price: $32.00