The number of books in print on how to make furniture is almost endless; the determined do-it-yourself antique-maker will want to start with Joseph Moxon, _Mechanick Exercises_ (London, 1683); Thomas Chippendale, _Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director_ (London, 1754); and Thomas Sheraton, _The Cabinet Dictionary_ (London, 1803). Among more recent publications, space permits mention of three—not necessarily the best or most complete, but at least representative: F. E. Hoard and A. W. Marlow, _The Cabinetmaker’s Treasury_ (New York, Macmillan, 1952); Lester Margon, _Construction of American Furniture Treasures_ (New York, Home Craftsman, 1949); and Raymond F. Yates, _Antique Reproductions for the Home Craftsman_ (New York, Whittlesey House, 1950). The last named includes a discussion of old-time hand tools and techniques; although not strictly concerned with cabinetmaking tools, Henry D. Mercer, _Ancient Carpenters’ Tools_ (Doylestown, Pa., Doylestown Hist. Soc., 1929) is very informative. On the historical aspects of furniture and fashion there are, again, a multitude of books; a good start can be made with Frank Davis, _A Picture History of Furniture_ (New York, Macmillan, 1958) and Hermann Schmitz, editor, _The Encyclopedia of Furniture_ (New York, Praeger, 1957, new edition). On English seventeenth- and eighteenth-century styles Ralph Edwards and L. G. G. Ramsey, editors, _Connoisseur Period Guides_ (London, The Connoisseur, 1956 _et seq._) and Robert W. Symonds, _Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England_ (London, The Connoisseur, 1955) are indispensable. Joseph Downs, _American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods_ (New York, Macmillan, 1952) and Albert Sack, _Fine Points of Furniture_ (New York, Crown, 1950) are essential for the colonial story in furniture design. Local developments—Virginia and elsewhere—will be found in the article by Helen Comstock, “Furniture of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky,” in _Antiques Magazine_, LXI (January, 1952). That magazine’s recent compilation entitled _The Antiques Treasury_ (New York, Dutton, 1959) has useful information and many illustrations of furniture and other furnishings in Williamsburg and in a number of other American museums and restorations. As to the craftsmen themselves and their life in colonial times, the first place to look is Ethel Hall Bjerkoe, _The Cabinetmakers of America_ (Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1957); and for light on the general, social, and economic status of craft workers Carl Bridenbaugh, _The Colonial Craftsman_ (New York, N. Y. Univ. Press, 1950) will be found helpful. _Seat of Empire_, by the same author; Hunter D. Farish, editor, _The Journal ... of Philip Vickers Fithian_; and Edmund S. Morgan, _Virginians at Home_ (all published by Colonial Williamsburg, in 1950, 1958, and 1952 respectively) will provide lively background for the local phases of the picture.