Official and Price Guide to American Arts and Crafts

The Official Price Guide to American Arts & Crafts is the one-volume encyclopedia to help you identify and evaluate your entire Arts & Crafts collection. Written by David Rago and Bruce Johnson, two of the most respected experts in the Arts & Crafts field, this indispensable book is packed with: Period names like Gustav Stickley, Limbert, George Ohr, Grueby, Fulper, Rookwood, Dirk Van Erp, Roycroft, Gustave Baumann, and many, many more. Detailed descriptions, price listings, and brief histories of every kind of object, artist, and major manufacturer of furniture, pottery, metalware, lighting, textiles, and color woodblock prints. Crucial information on how to easily identify and date hundreds of Arts & Crafts pieces. Insider tips on how to buy, sell, and care for your collection as well as how to detect reproductions and clever fakes Hundreds of photographs and manufacturers' shop marks.Rago, David is the author of 'Official and Price Guide to American Arts and Crafts', published 2003 under ISBN 9780609809891 and ISBN 060980989X.