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The following sources are recommended by an expert whose research specialty is the history of furniture making in the United States.

Six Superlative Sources

· American Furniture (annual), Luke Beckerdite, ed. (Chipstone Foundation, 1993 to present).

· Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, New England Begins: The Seventeenth-Century, 3 vols. (Museum of Fine Arts, 1982).

· Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730 (W.W. Norton, 1988).

· Charles F. Hummel, With Hammer in Hand: The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York (University Press of Virginia, 1968).

· Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown, Southern Furniture, 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection (Harry N. Abrams, 1997).

· Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye with the assistance of Philip Zea, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Houghton Mifflin, 1984).

Other Excellent Sources

· Wendy A. Cooper, Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 (Abbeville Press, 1993).

· Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (Hudson Hills Press, 1996).

· Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Three Centuries of American Furniture (Wallace-Homestead, 1995).

· Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (Viking Press, 1966).

· Robert D. Mussey, The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour (Peabody Essex Museum, 2003).

· Bradford L. Rauschenberg and John Bivins, Jr., The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820, 3 vols. (Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 2003).

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