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

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• Seats of the colonists and other furnishings. (American architect company, 1904), by William Rotch Ware, R. Davis Benn, Horace C. Dunham, and William B. Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le mobilier français; les sièges (quatre-vingt-dix planches). (H. Laurens, 1920), by H.-M. Magne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chairs. ([Whitney Publication], 1953), by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der stuhl; stuhltypen aus verschiedenen ländern und versuche neuzeitlicher lösungen in ansichten und masszeichnungen (J. Hoffmann, 1930), by Adolf G. Schneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• A picture book of English chairs. (London, 1927), by Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connecticut chairs in the collection of the Connecticut Historical Society. (Hartford, 1956), by Connecticut Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Windsor chair. (Deerfield Books; distributed by Hearthside Press, 1962), by Thomas H. Ormsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• English chairs, with specimens illustrating the various periods from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century (J. Tiranti, 1923), by Herbert Ernest Binstead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full-scale burning behavior of upholstered chairs (Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards :, 1979), by Vytenis Babrauskas, United States. National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, United States. Dept. of Defense, United States. Veterans Administration, and Center for Fire Research (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey in seating (Greenwood Press, 1970), by Earnest Albert Hooton, Harvard University. Department of Anthropology, and Heywood-Wakefield Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hitchcock chairs (Published for the Tercentenary Commission by the Yale University Press, 1933), by Mabel Roberts Moore and Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut. Committee on Historical Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tubular metal framed stacking chairs from Italy and Taiwan : determinations of the Commission in investigations nos. 731-TA-202 and 203 (preliminary) under the Tariff Act of 1930, together with the information obtained in the investigations. (U.S. International Trade Commission, 1984), by United States International Trade Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tubular steel framed stacking chairs from Italy : determination of the Commission in investigation no. 731-TA-202 (final) under the Tariff Act of 1930, together with the information obtained in the investigation. (U.S. International Trade Commission, 1985), by United States International Trade Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• G-seat system step input and sinusoidal response characteristics (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ;, 1978), by Thomas W. Showalter, Robert J Miller, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chairs by the Jacob brothers (A. Morancʹe;, 1921), by Ernest Dumonthier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presentation of the President's Chair on the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the founding of the Society, March 8th, 1798-1908 (Saint John Globe Pub. Co., 1908), by Saint John St. Andrew's Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Windsor handbook; comprising illustrations & descriptions of Winsor furniture of all periods, including side chairs, arm chairs, comb-backs, writing-arm Windsors, babies' high backs, babies' low chairs, child's chairs, also settees, love seats, stools & tables (Wallace Nutting, incorporated, 1917), by Wallace Nutting (page images at HathiTrust)
• True reproductions of fine Windsor and colonial chairs. (Webster Furniture Co., 1920), by Webster Furniture Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seat weaving with splints. (College Station, Texas : Texas Agricultural Extension Service, [1954], 1954), by Bernice Claytor, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Windsors (Old America Co., 1917), by Wallace Nutting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sièges historiques anciens. (J. Verchère, 1879), by J. Verchére (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of the late Thomas B. Clarke; removed from his beautiful homes in Southampton and New York; an unusual assemblage of English and European furniture and decorations; sold by order of City bank farmers trust company. (American Art Association, 1931), by Thomas Benedict Clarke and Anderson Galleries American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Illustrated catalogue of folding chairs, and childrens' reversible body carriages, made by the New Haven folding chair co., New Haven, Conn. March 1st 1873 ... (Punderson, Crisand & Co., printers, 1873), by New Haven Folding Chair Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• True reproductions of fine Windsor and colonial chairs. (Webster Furniture Co., 1920), by Webster Furniture Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keystone tables. (Klopstock Bros., 1923), by Klopstock Bros (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement catalogue of F. Herhold & Sons : manufacturers of bent and sawed stock chairs. ([F. Herhold & Sons, 1880), by F. Herhold & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal rest chairs for the living room and library : consisting of royal chairs, royal library chairs and rockers made by Royal Chair Company. ([n.p. ], 1910), by Mich.) Royal Chair Company (Sturgis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Price list of chairs and furniture : June 2d, 1874 (J.W. Mason & Co., 1874), by J.W. Mason & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• A proportionate and contoural analysis of the eighteenth century English chairs (1929), by Mary Catherine Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty-six new, original & practical designs for chairs (J. Hollway lithog., 1830), by William Toms and Joseph Hollway (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thirty-six new, original & practical designs for chairs (J. Hollway lithog., 1830), by William Toms and Joseph Hollway (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coach and sedan. (Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, 1925), by Henry Peacham (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• L'ameublement au XIX siècle : siegès, meubles, tentures (Au bureau du Journal le moniteur de l'ameublement :, 1864), by A. Sanguineti, E. Zamor, A. Castelucho, and Becquet frères (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sièges et tentures (Paris : D. Guilmard, [between 1870 and 1879?], in the 1870s), by Désiré Guilmard and Imprimerie Lemercier et cie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Coronation chair of Great Britain and some other historic chairs of interest to all subjects of the British Empire, and especially to Canadians (s.n., 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Grandfather's chair (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at Florida)
• Grandfather's chair (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at Florida)

• Production and use of small dimension stock in the chair industry (Association of Wood Using Industries, 1923), by Arthur Thaddeus Upson, Arnold Orlando Benson, and Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Remarks on Lady Morgan's statements regarding St. Peter's chair preserved in the Vatican Basilic (Joseph Salviucci and Son, 1833), by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literature survey on passenger and seat modeling for the evaluation of ride quality (Council for Advanced Transportation Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1973), by Anthony Healey, Ronald Stearman, Bruce Gene Shanahan, United States. Dept. of Transportation, and University of Texas at Austin. Council for Advanced Transportation Studies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Light-weight seating: design research and development of a net seat for Project Manhigh. One of a series of studies pertaining to crew compartment habitability for extended missions. (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1958., 1958), by John H. Duddy, Charles A. Dempsey, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, and Tufts University. Bio-Mechanics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Light-weight seating: design research on a nylon net seat : one of a series of studies pertaining to crew compartment habitability for extended missions (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1958., 1958), by Jess Forrest, R. F. Slechta, Wilbert Kennith Carter, Edward A. Wade, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, and Tufts University. Bio-Mechanics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)

• The rocking-chair, an American institution (The Century co., 1928), by Walter A. Dyer and Esther Stevens Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)

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

More items available under broader and related terms at left.