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Pages
240
Year
2012
Language
English

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Excellent study by distinguished historian examines lives and work of American craftsmen in the years before the Revolution-cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers, printers, painters, engravers, blacksmiths, button-makers, shipwrights, many more. 18 illus. References.

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"...a fascinating study not only of the work of the 18th-century American artisan but of his place in pre-Revolutionary society"
The New Yorker

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