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, written by Fred T. Hodgson and published in Chicago by F. J. Drake in 1910, combining period history with workshop instruction. Illustrations mix flat outline elevations of chairs, cabinets and bedsteads with dense wood-engraved panels of Renaissance scrollwork, urns, masks and carved floral inlay, usable as ornament stock or measured line diagrams.
