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• The London Chair-Makers' and Carvers' Book of Prices for Workmanship, As Regulated and Agreed To by a Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (third edition; London: T. Brettell, 1829), by Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (London, England) (multiple formats at Google)

• The Stick Chair Book (revised edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2023), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Morrison H. Heckscher (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Morrison H. Heckscher (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Granny's Wonderful Chair (New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1928), by Frances Browne, illust. by Florence White Williams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Granny's Wonderful Chair (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1916), by Frances Browne, illust. by Katharine Pyle (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Stick Chair Book (revised edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2023), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• The Stick Chair Book (revised edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2023), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Furniture Designing and Draughting: Notes on the Elementary Forms, Methods of Construction and Dimensions of Common Articles of Furniture (third edition revised, with addendum; New York: W. T. Comstock Co., c1914), by Alvan Crocker Nye (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Practical Book of Period Furniture: Treating of Furniture of the English, American Colonial and Post-Colonial and Principal French Periods (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1914), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbot McClure (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Problems in Furniture Making (Peoria, IL: Manual Arts Press, c1906), by Fred D. Crawshaw
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Problems in Furniture Making (fifth edition; Peoria, IL: Manual Arts Press, 1913), by Fred D. Crawshaw
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Decoration (London: Chatto and Windus, 1881), by Mary Eliza Haweis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cabinet Making: Principles of Designing, Construction and Laying Out Work (Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids Furniture Record Co., c1913), by J. H. Rudd, contrib. by C. A. Zuppann and Walter K. Schmidt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Furnishing the Home of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration With Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1912), by Lucy Abbot Throop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Furnishing the Home of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration With Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today (new and revised edition; New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1912), by Lucy Abbot Throop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Interior Decoration: Its Principles and Practice (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Frank Alvah Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture (second edition; London: Printed for M. Taylor, 1835), by Richard Brown (multiple formats at Google)

• Sikes 1939 Catalog 1940: Modern; Old Chatham; Colonist Craft (Buffalo: Sikes Co., ca. 1939), by Sikes Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Most Approved Taste: Displaying a Great Variety of Patterns ... in the Plainest and Most Enriched Styles: With a Scale to Each, and an Explanation in Letter Press: Also, the Plan of a Room, Shewing the Proper Distribution of the Furniture, from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and Co. (reprinted from 1794 I. and J. Taylor third edition; London: B.T. Batsford, 1897), by A. Hepplewhite and Co., contrib. by George Hepplewhite (page images at Wisconsin)

• The London Cabinet-Makers' Union Book of Prices (London: Printed by Ballintine and Byworth for the Committee, 1811), by London Cabinet Makers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Baltimore Federal Furniture in the American Wing (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), by Marilynn Johnson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Furniture (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edward S. Cooke (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edward S. Cooke (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• English Furniture (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Morrison H. Heckscher (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Antique Furniture (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Fred. W. Burgess
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Furniture (New York: Duffield and Co., 1911), by Esther Singleton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Historic Styles in Furniture (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by Virginia Robie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time (1893), by Frederick Litchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Furniture Forum (partial serial archives)
• The Furniture Gazette (partial serial archives)
• Das Interieur (in German; 1900-1915) (partial serial archives)

• How to Know Period Styles in Furniture (Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Rapids Furniture Record Co., 1912), by William Lowing Kimerly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and H.N. Abrams; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), contrib. by Amelia Peck, James Parker, William Rieder, Olga Raggio, Mary B. Shepard, Annie-Christine Daskalakis Mathews, Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Wolfram Koeppe, Joan R. Mertens, Alfreda Murck, and Wen Fong, illust. by Karin L. Willis (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Historic Styles in Furniture (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by Virginia Robie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Colonial Furniture in America (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Luke Vincent Lockwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Furniture of Our Forefathers (complete in 1 volume; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Esther Singleton, contrib. by Russell Sturgis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Living Spaces (New York: Whitney Publications, 1952), ed. by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917), by Mary Harrod Northend
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Anarchist's Design Book (expanded edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2019), by Christopher Schwarz, illust. by Briony Morrow-Cribbs (PDF at lostartpress.com)
• The Anarchist's Workbench (Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2020), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• Peter Hunt's Workbook: With Text and Pictures (Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, c1945), by Peter Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anarchist's Design Book (expanded edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2019), by Christopher Schwarz, illust. by Briony Morrow-Cribbs (PDF at lostartpress.com)
• The Stick Chair Book (revised edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2023), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)
• The Anarchist's Workbench (Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2020), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork (South Kensington Museum Art Handbook #3; London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, ca. 1875), by John Hungerford Pollen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork ("volume I" only volume published of this revised edition; London: Printed for HMSO by Wyman and Sons, 1908), by John Hungerford Pollen and T. A. Lehfeldt (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.