"A Reverence For Wood" 1965 SLOANE, Eric (SOLD) Cabinets

"A Reverence For Wood" 1965 SLOANE, Eric (SOLD) CabinetsSLOANE, Eric [110] pp. Funk & Wagnalls 1965 11" x 8" VG VG Scroll Down for (9) Additional Scans: In this book Eric Sloane concentrates on wood. Colonial America was blanketed in a thick forest of first growth timber that was one of the primary economic resources to a new colony. He talks about how wood was used, burned for charcoal, riven for shakes, hewn into building timber, or sawn for lumber. This book is also profusely illustrated with a well

Preface by Princesse Ghislaine de Polignac

George Street in Toronto (just north of Bloor Street)

" For more than half a century

Scroll Down for (8) Additional Scans:This delightful account of rags to riches is an antidote to gloom and worry

L’Architecture Vivante devoted to modern architecture and design

was an English landscape architect

Catalogue II: Tableaux et Dessins Anciens et du XIXeme SiecleLots 70-94

Art Sz: 13 3/8"H x 8 5/8"W

the accounts vividly describe the flora

Widener and whose works are also exhibited in several museums in the United States

William[172] pp

Jacket design by Ronald McRae