Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134) and index.
Contents:
Chapter One: Ipswich -- Chapter Two: Oak: the Material of Choice -- Chapter Three: Thomas Dennis in the Woods -- Chapter Four: The Town at Work -- Chapter Five: Thomas Dennis in the Shop.
Summary:
"Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich, a Massachusetts village a long day's sail north of Boston. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner, setting up shop in the heart of the village. During his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. Today, connoisseurs judge his elaborately carved furniture as among the best produced in seventeenth-century America." "Robert Tarule, historian and craftsman, recreates Dennis's world in recounting how he erected a single oak chest."--Jacket.
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