The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture ..
A trade manual for cabinetmakers and furniture designers by Frederick Thomas Hodgson, published in Chicago by F. J. Drake & Co. in 1910, combining workshop instruction with chapters on furniture history, design, color, and materials. The plates mix flat line profiles of chairs and tables with dense wood-engraved views of marquetry cabinets, carved panels, and ornamental detail, giving designers outline furniture silhouettes, scrollwork borders, urn-and-acanthus panel fills, and mask and cartouche motifs.
