| Surveys | 
         
          
      | 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] |