Iron at Winterthur, a catalogue of the extensive but unpublished collection at the museum, will fill an oft-neglected niche in the field of decorative arts--that of the history and use of iron in the everyday life of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century America. With essays and entries on approximately 300 cast, wrought, and ...
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Iron at Winterthur, a catalogue of the extensive but unpublished collection at the museum, will fill an oft-neglected niche in the field of decorative arts--that of the history and use of iron in the everyday life of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century America. With essays and entries on approximately 300 cast, wrought, and ...
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Very Good-in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0912724633. Like New Copy w/ exception of crack to front joint, therefore slightly tender; Great Dust Jacket protected in Mylar Cover.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 428 pages.
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VG/VG (light scuffing to boards and corners, pages are otherwise very clean. ) Khaki cloth boards with white stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 428 pp. BW illustrations. Photo is of previous item in our collection. "Iron stands as a preeminent record of the metal's significant role in the lives of all Americans, from the beginnings of European settlement until the advent of the industrial revolution in the mid nineteenth century." "It is not surprising that museum founder Henry Francis du Pont chose to amass iron. In his endeavor to assemble comprehensive period room displays, such acquisitions were inevitable. Iron is present at Winterthur in the multitude of its original purposes, and yet it represents only a fraction of the total body available in early America. Nevertheless, the collection forms a significant compendium of both the surviving artifacts and the makers who created them." "Iron at Winterthur brings to light this extraordinary but oft-overlooked collection. It presents a range of the best and most representative forms, and it is intended as a record documenting a cross section of artifacts imported or made and used in America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The author carefully selected each artifact as evidence of the deliberate act by the ironworker to incorporate artistry into his craft."--Jacket.
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New. Sealed In Publisher's Wrap. Khaki cloth boards with white stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 428 pp. BW illustrations. "Iron stands as a preeminent record of the metal's significant role in the lives of all Americans, from the beginnings of European settlement until the advent of the industrial revolution in the mid nineteenth century." "It is not surprising that museum founder Henry Francis du Pont chose to amass iron. In his endeavor to assemble comprehensive period room displays, such acquisitions were inevitable. Iron is present at Winterthur in the multitude of its original purposes, and yet it represents only a fraction of the total body available in early America. Nevertheless, the collection forms a significant compendium of both the surviving artifacts and the makers who created them." "Iron at Winterthur brings to light this extraordinary but oft-overlooked collection. It presents a range of the best and most representative forms, and it is intended as a record documenting a cross section of artifacts imported or made and used in America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The author carefully selected each artifact as evidence of the deliberate act by the ironworker to incorporate artistry into his craft."--Jacket.
