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"An education and a delight for the collector of antique boxes." -- Booklist
"Careful scholarship does not prevent it from being informative and entertaining." -- Antioch Review
"Little has written a lively . . . narrative to accompany the 24 color plates and 190 black and white illustrations." -- Choice
"Virtually every sort of box imaginable is presented in what will become a collectors' classic." -- Southern Antiques
"Careful scholarship does not prevent it from being informative and entertaining." -- Antioch Review
"Little has written a lively . . . narrative to accompany the 24 color plates and 190 black and white illustrations." -- Choice
"Virtually every sort of box imaginable is presented in what will become a collectors' classic." -- Southern Antiques
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6 3/8 x 9 1/8 trim. 214 illus. (24 color). LC 2001-087880
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This review is from: Neat and Tidy: Boxes and Their Contents Used in Early American Households (Paperback)
If you enjoy and appreciate early boxes, such as tea caddys, pantry boxes and band boxes. This book is for you. A wonderfully written book by Nina Little. Covers boxes tht were once a part of daily life.
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Boxes were among the earliest furnishings used in the American Colonies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dressing boxes, patch boxes, general convenience, sliding cover, tobacco boxes, stylized flowers, carved box, household inventories, probate records Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, New Hampshire, Essex County, Essex Institute, Old Sturbridge Village, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Museum of Fine Arts, The New-York Historical Society, The Wayside Press, George Francis Dow, New Haven, Rita Susswein Gottesman, Rural Household Inventories, Abbott Lowell Cummings, James Boyd, New Jersey, Thomas Dennis, Colonial Furniture, Courtesy The Peabody Museum of Salem, Daniel Evans, Esther Singleton, Mary Nettleton, Silas Ball, America Hurrah Antiques New!
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Boxes were among the earliest furnishings used in the American Colonies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dressing boxes, patch boxes, general convenience, sliding cover, tobacco boxes, stylized flowers, carved box, household inventories, probate records Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, New Hampshire, Essex County, Essex Institute, Old Sturbridge Village, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Museum of Fine Arts, The New-York Historical Society, The Wayside Press, George Francis Dow, New Haven, Rita Susswein Gottesman, Rural Household Inventories, Abbott Lowell Cummings, James Boyd, New Jersey, Thomas Dennis, Colonial Furniture, Courtesy The Peabody Museum of Salem, Daniel Evans, Esther Singleton, Mary Nettleton, Silas Ball, America Hurrah Antiques New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton on 6 pages
- Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, Vol. 1 by Wallace Nutting on 4 pages
- Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow on page 61, page 74, and Back Matter
- Home Life In Colonial Days by Nichols / Seloc on page 146, page 150, and Back Matter
- Early American silver by Martha Gandy Fales on page 74, page 77, and Back Matter
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- Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy by Baxter Black in Back Matter
- Instant Expert: Collecting American Folk Art by Helaine Fendelman in Back Matter
- The Color Encyclopedia of Hostas by Diana Grenfell on page 82
- STARK NAKED: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GRAHAM STARK by GRAHAM STARK on page 229
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