Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania

by Margaret B. Schiffer

This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft tradition. The settlers included predominently English Quakers for the first half century, after which numbers of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Welsh Baptists, Irish Quakers, and Germans became equally important and, later, had major influence in the county. The hand made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916838056
• ISBN13: 9780916838058
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.8" x 11.4"