The book of Canadian antiques / edited by Donald Blake Webster.

Main entry:

Webster, Donald Blake.

Title & Author:

The book of Canadian antiques / edited by Donald Blake Webster.

Publication:

Toronto ; New York : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, [1974]

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.
French-Canadian furniture / Jean Palardy -- Quebec sculpture and carving / Jean Trudel -- Furniture of English Quebec / D.B. Webster -- Nova Scotia furniture / George E.G MacLaren -- New Brunswick furniture / Huia G. Ryder -- Ontario furniture / Philip Shackleton -- Ontario-German decorative arts / A. Lynn McMurray -- Silver / Helena Ignatieff -- Pewter and Copper / D.B. Webster -- Treenware and wooden utensils / Una Abrahamson -- Toys and games / Janet Holmes -- Guns and gunmakers / S. James Gooding -- Decorative ironwork / Nancy Willson -- Tools of the trades / Loris Russell -- Pottery -- earthenware and stoneware / D.B Webster -- Nineteenth-century British ceramic imports / Elizabeth Collard -- Glass and the glass industry / Janet Holmes -- Handweaving and textiles / Harold B. & Dorothy K. Burnham -- Prints and early illustrations / Mary Allodi -- Books and broadsides / Edith G. Fith -- Photography and photographers / Ralph Greenhill -- Dating and identification -- Restoration and care -- The problem of fakery -- Antiques as an investment -- Bibliography -- Museums with Canadian antiques collections.

Summary:

An authoritative and up-to-date guide to all the major fields of Canadian antiques with more than 400 photographs of Canadian antiques.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0070821402
9780070821408

Subject:

Decorative arts Canada.
Art objects Collectors and collecting Canada.
Collectors and collecting.
Collections.
Arts décoratifs Canada.
Objets d'art Collectionneurs et collections Canada.
Art objects Collectors and collecting
Decorative arts
Canada

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 6897
Call No.: 2523
Copy: c. 1
Notes: manquant 2007/02
Status: Missing

Location: Library main canada 6898
Call No.: ID:87-B2083
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

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