THE DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF NANTUCKET.

Carpenter, Charles H., Jr. and Mary Grace Carpenter. Arthur d'Arazien (photographer).

ISBN 10: 0396084885 / ISBN 13: 9780396084884

Published by New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987., 1987

About this Item

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite statement and number line upon copyright page). xiv, 257 pages. Hardcover: H 25.75cm x L 21cm. Dust jacket rubbed, creasing and tears along worn edges, several small patches of surface abrasion at front panel's top right from removal of past bookseller's sticker; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart cover. Blue cloth spine bumped at ends, gray boards. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Acknowledgements, two sections of color plates on unpaged leaves, b/w photographs, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Glossary, and Index. Features twelve chapters titled as follows: 1) INTRODUCTION; 2) AT HOME IN NANTUCKET: LIFESTYLES, 1700 - 1900; 3) FURNITURE IN THE HOME; 4) MARINERS' THINGS, BOXES, TOYS, WOODENWARE; 5) TEXTILES; 6) CERAMICS, GLASS, AND LIGHTING DEVICES; 7) SILVER; 8) IRON, PEWTER, BRASS AND COPPER, TIN; 9) SCRIMSHAW; 10) BASKETS; 11) CARVINGS AND DRAWINGS; AND 12) SOUVENIRS FROM FAR-AWAY PLACES plus a concluding essay titled OCCUPATIONS IN COLONIAL NANTUCKET. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0396084885.

Seller Inventory # PXZP-12754

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF NANTUCKET.
• Publisher: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987.
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0396084885
• ISBN 13: 9780396084884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Decorative Arts

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Synopsis

Includes chapters on decorative arts: Furniture in the Home; Mariner's Things, Boxes, Toys, Woodenware; Textiles; Ceramics, Glass, and Lighting Devices; Silver; Iron, Pewter, Brass and Copper, Tin; Scrimshaw; Baskets; Carvings and Drawings; and Souvenirs from Far-Away Places. Contains a section of Occupations in Colonial Nantucket, Selected Bibliography, Glossary, and Index. Illustrated with 209 black and white figures and 74 color plates.