PUBLICATIONS OF

    THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS

    VOLUME LXXXVIII

    OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

    • Donald R. Friary, President
    • Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President
    • Celeste Walker, Vice President
    • Robert J. Allison, Vice President
    • Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary
    • Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary
    • Thomas Appleton, Treasurer

    COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATIONS

    • Kenneth P. Minkema, Chair
    • Robert Charles Anderson
    • Catherine Brekus
    • David D. Hall
    • Donald R. Friary
    • Christopher M. Jedrey
    • Celeste Walker

    EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS

    • John W. Tyler

    BOSTON FURNITURE

    1700–1900

    BOSTON FURNITURE

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    Edited by

    BROCK JOBE

    and

    GERALD W. R. WARD

    •

    With the assistance of

    Lynn McCarthy

    BOSTON · 2016

    Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

    frontispiece: Side chair with loop and diamond splat, attributed to James Graham, Boston, 1759–60. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. See also fig. 6.

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