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AMERICAN CORNUCOPIA: TREASURES FROM THE WINTERTHUR LIBRARY.
Martinez, Katharine (editor)
With contributions from Bert R. Denker, Paul B. Hensley, E. Richard McKinstry and Neville Thompson.
Limited to an edition of 2000 copies. This handsome volume presents highlights of the Winterthur Library collection in eighteen different areas related to the material culture of early America. Written by respected staff members in their areas of expertise, each chapter essay covers topics such as architecture, ornament, interiors, furniture, ceramics and glass, metals, gardens, art and artists, cookbooks and manuals of domestic economy, the Shakers, advertising, childhood, courtesy and etiquette, pleasure and company, technology, textiles and needlework, and travel. With sixteen color plates and sixty-two black-and-white illustrations. Includes a list of holdings cited.
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KNIPTON, A LEICESTERSHIRE VILLAGE.
by O'Connor, John
Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is one of the 45 lettered copies to be bound thus and to contain the separate portfolio of engravings. Signed by O'Connor. With the woodcuts printed in different colors. The plates in the separate portfolio are all initialed by O'Connor in pencil.

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