TEXAS FURNITURE: THE CABINETMAKERS AND THEIR WORK, 1840 – 1880
Lonn and David B. Warren Taylor
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975. 378pp. Index. Numerous photographs. Bibliography. Glossary. Notes. Appendix. Checklist of Texas cabinetmakers. First edition. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Certainly one of the best and most exhaustive studies of Texas furniture to date, it consists of photographs of 222 representative pieces. The photographs are accompanied by detailed descriptions that include the maker, date, materials, measurements, history, owner and analysis of each piece. Introductory chapters provide an overview of nineteenth-century Texas and a brief history of the development and decline of Texas cabinetmaking.