Rural Household Inventories: Establishing the Names, Uses and Furnishings of Rooms in the Colonial New England Home 1675-1775

Published by Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, 1964

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Navy cloth with gold spine lettering. 306 pp. with 14 bw plates. Inscribed by the author to Eleanor Fayerweather. 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. NF; only blemish is a thumb smudge on page edges when book is closed. Else, pages as new and binding clean and tight.

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Title
Rural Household Inventories: Establishing the Names, Uses and Furnishings of Rooms in the Colonial New England Home 1675-1775
Author
Cummings, Abbott Lowell (ed.)
Publisher
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston
Publication year
1964
Binding
Hardcover
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American Decorative Arts, Kitchens and Household Furnishings - American

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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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