1. The Windsor armchair and two side chairs, illustrated as fig. 95 on page 117, are not identified in the caption. They are Rhode Island braced bow-back chairs, part of a set of six side and two armchairs, ca. 1780–1800, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (anonymous gift and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund; 1976.774-779, 1976.819-820). The chairs are of pine, ash, and maple, painted green, with unpainted mahogany arms on the two armchairs. They descended in the Richmond family until acquired by John Walton and, in turn, the Museum. 2. For a brief recent overview of the use of wood in American furniture, see Edward S. Cooke, Jr., “Beyond Aesthetics: Wood Choice in Historical Furniture,” in Conservation by Design, ed. Scott Landis (Providence, R.I.: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Woodworkers Alliance for Rainforest Protection, 1993), pp. 19–28, in which he argues that the selection of wood at any given time was more than a simple aesthetic choice, but rather it was “embedded within the values of a society and can reveal issues about cultural cohesion, social dominance, and even labor exploitation” (p. 19). This innovative book, which features a number of essays by various people and a catalogue of modern furniture by seventy-six craftsmen, examines both the craftsmans’ “responsibilities for their materials and the patrons’ for their patterns of consumption” (p. 9), and is perhaps the first book to deal with what Cooke calls the “ecological history of furnituremaking.”