Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
Luke Beckerdite
The Early Furniture of Christopher and Job Townsend
Luke Beckerdite
“The True Antiques of Tomorrow”: Furniture by the Potthast Brothers of Baltimore, 1892–1975
Catherine Rogers Arthur
The Genesis of Neoclassical Style in Baltimore Furniture
Sumpter Priddy III, J. Michael Flanigan, and Gregory R. Weidman
A New Suspect: Baltimore Cabinetmaker Edward Priestley
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley
New Insights on John Cadwalader’s Commode-Seat Side Chairs
Leroy Graves and Luke Beckerdite
Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shops and Their Customers
Martha H. Willoughby
Cultural Negotiations: A Study of the New Mexican Caja
Elizabeth A. Fleming
The Book on the Bookshelf
Review by Neville Thompson
Art & Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825–1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection
Review by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio
Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680–1758
Review by Philip D. Zimmerman
History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition
Review by Gerald W. R. Ward