Following are some good sources of illustrations of 17th century furniture. Many
of these are likely available in your local library, and a search there will likely turn
up other good sources not listed here. The harder-to-find titles might be available
through inter-library loan from a local college or university, which might also have
copies of catalogs from some of the excellent museum exhibitions on this work, from the
past 25 years..
Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture - The British Tradition, 1979 The Antique
Collectors' Club Ltd.,(available through Apollo Book, 5 Schoolhouse Lane, Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. 12603
Mr. Chinnery's book, if you can find it, is an encyclopedic source of written and visual
information on English and American work of the period, researched and written from a
modern point of view, both scholarly and affectionate, yet unromantic.
Gerald R. Ward, American Case Furniture 1988 Yale University Press
Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture 1630-1730 1988 W.W. Norton Co.
Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, New England Begins, 1982, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston (exhibition catalog)
John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, 1980 Alfred
A. Knopf, N.Y.
Robert Blair St. George, The Wrought Covenant, 1979 Brockton Art Center - Fuller
Memorial, Brockton, Ma. (exhibition catalog)
Irving W. Lyon, Colonial Furniture of New England, 1891 (1977) EP. Dutton, N.Y.
Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1924, and Furniture Treasury,
both available in Dover Publications reprints.
Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 1957 Castle Books,
Charles Scribner's and Sons, N.Y.
