This superbly illustrated book, written by John G. Shea, a leading authority on American furniture, traces the characteristic styles of regional furniture-New England Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Pennsylvania German, French Canadian, Shaker, Connecticut Hitchcock, Southern Plantation, Maine Curiosities, Ohio Zoar, Norwegian American, and Texas-German. Categories of furniture are compared piece-by-piecechairs, rockers, tables, beds, cupboards, and many more. Full-page measured drawings are given for over ninety country classics, and details of the distinctive joinery practices of the period are included so that today's craftsmen and students may make some of this furniture for themselves. Nothing expresses the spirit of the United States and Canada more appropriately than this simple, functional, handmade furniture. The history of North America itself is recorded through the antique country furniture described in this informative and beautiful book. - from Amzon