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A     Ames, Kenneth L. and Gerald W.R. Ward, eds. Decorative Arts and Household Furnishings in America, 1650-1920: An Annotated Bibliography. Winterthur, DE: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1989. (Z 5956.D3 D43 1989)
B   Barquist, David L. American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992. (NK 2740.B27 1992)
    Beckerdite, Luke, ed. American Furniture. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Chipstone Foundation (NK 2405 A54) [Bayou Bend has volumes 1993 to the present]
C   Cooper, Wendy A. In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. (NK 806 .C63 1980)
D   Davidson, Marshall B., ed. The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1967. (NK 806 .D38)
F   Flanigan, J. Michael. American Furniture in the Kaufman Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986. (NK 2406 .F58 1986)
    Fleming, John and Hugh Honour. The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. 2d ed. London: Viking, 1989. (NK 30 .F55 1989)
G   Gloag, John. A Complete Dictionary of Furniture. Rev. ed. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1991. (NK 2205 .G54 1991)
H   Hanks, David. Innovative Furniture in America. New York: Horizon Press, 1981. (TS 805 .H3)
    Hurst, Ronald L. and Jonathan Prown. Southern Furniture 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection. Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997. (NK 2411 .H87 1997)
N   Naeve, Milo M. Identifying American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms Colonial to Contemporary. Nashville, TN: Association for State and Local History, 1989. (NK 2405 N28) [Good basic source] Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art.
P   Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976. (N 6535 P5 P5 1976) [Good essays on Philadelphia objects]
    Puig, Francis J. and Michael Conforti, eds. The American Craftsman and the European Tradition, 1620-1820. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1989. (NK 805 .A43 1989)
V   Venable, Charles. American Furniture in the Bybee Collection. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. (NK 2405 .D35 1989)
W   Ward, Gerald W.R. American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1988. (NK 2725 .W37 1988)
    Ward, Gerald W.R., ed. American Furniture with Related Decorative Arts, 1660-1830: The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Layton Art Collection. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1991. (NK 2406 .L38 1991) [Excellent introductory essays on each period]

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