344 black-and-white photographs with accompanying captions are supplemented by a most informative text which reviews the history and manufacturing of

EARLY PENNSYLVANIA ARTS AND CRAFTS    by John Joseph Stoudt, this edition published by Bonanza a division of Crown Publishers, Inc.,  1964. 

This oversize book  “is a monumental and definitive history of all the arts and crafts of early Pennsylvania.  Profusely illustrated in monochrome and color, it contains sections on architecture, describing private and public structures; furniture, discussing Philadelphia Georgian, Philadelphia Chippendale, Germanic furniture; fine arts, dealing with such early Pennsylvania painters as Benjamin West and the Peale family; painting on glass; tavern signs; silversmithing; music and musical instruments; crafts, covering pottery, carving, iron, textiles, rifles, and painted objects; and the art of illumination, enthralling in the descriptions and reproductions—many in color—of fraktur lettering, certificates of baptism and birth, picture sermons, bookplates, New Years greetings, and house blessings.  In all, this is a fascinating, highly readable treasury of Pennsylvania arts and crafts that will surely become the standard text in its field.” 

Oversize / heavy 9.25” x 12.25” hardback with dust cover in good condition.  364 pages.

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