Hitehill W.M. Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century

Virginia Press, 1974. — 336 c.Eighteenth century Boston furniture.
Boston furniture of the eighteenth century has long interested informed collectors and students of furniture history. Yet, no book has been devoted to the subject. While catalogues and scholarly works have appeared on the eighteenth-century furniture of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Mareland, and South Carolina.1 little has been written on Massachusetts and particularly Boston. Today such an obvious research need in the field of American art docs not long remain fallow. Even before this book was begun, preliminary work had commenced. In 1948 Mabel Swan published the first major list of Boston craftsmen.