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• Furniture -- New York (State)
• Furniture -- Rhode Island

• Living Spaces (New York: Whitney Publications, 1952), ed. by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), ed. by Berry B. Tracy, contrib. by Marilynn Johnson, Marvin D Schwartz, and Suzanne Boorsch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Mission Furniture: How to Make It (3 parts; Chicago: Popular Mechanics Co., c1909-1912), by H. H. Windsor
  • Part 1: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Part 2: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Part 3: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Honoré Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998), by Peter M. Kenny, contrib. by Ulrich Leben and Frances F. Bretter (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), by Morrison H. Heckscher, contrib. by Lori Zabar (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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.