Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
Luke Beckerdite
First Flowers of the Wilderness: Mannerist Furniture from a Northern Essex County, Massachusetts, Shop
Robert F. Trent, Peter Follansbee, and Alan Miller
When Good Cabinetmakers Made Bad Furniture: The Career and Work of David Evans
Eleanore P. Gadsden
Early New York Turned Chairs: A Stoelendraaier’s Conceit
Erik Gronning
The Lisle Desk-and-Bookcase: A Rhode Island Icon
Brock Jobe
A Salem Cabinetmakers’ Price Book
Dean Thomas Lahikainen
Two Early Eighteenth-Century Schränke: Rare Survivals of the German Joiner's Art in the Hudson River Valley
Peter Kenny
Book Reviews
The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families
Review by Elisabeth D. Garrett
Early American Decorative Arts, 1620–1860: A Handbook for Interpreters
Review by Gilian Ford Shallcross
Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production
Review by Anne Woodhouse
American Furniture: Understanding Styles, Construction, and Quality
Review by Ted Landsmark