Teeming with over 2,000 illustrations - reprinted from rare woodcut engravings and selected from hard-to-find antique trade catalogs - this fascinating archive offers an extensive view of the furnishings of a typical 19th-century home. It features andirons and ash sifters, housemaids'

Readers who enjoyed and valued such Dover reprints as the 1895 Montgomery Ward Catalog will delight in this illustrated archive of Victonan era house furnishings kitchenware, and hardware Over 2.000 illustrations - reprinted from rare woodcut engravings and selected from priceless antique trade catalogs - fill the pages of this comprehensive guide. On display are andirons, apple corers and ash sifters, balance scales, beef shavers, cowbells, berry spoons, brass coal hods, housemaid's buckets, buttonhole cutters, cider mills, coffee roasters, grindstones, hay rakes, inkwells, oil-burning lamps, sausage stuffers, seed strippers, spittoons, string holders, washboards, clothes wringers, and hundreds of other items. Captions provide helpful product descriptions, including such information as size, weight and cost. Historians, antique dealers, collectors, and lovers of Victoriana will find this volume an indispensable reference: artists, desigrers, and craftspeople will be delighted with the enormous selection of copyright-free images - many unavailable elsewhere.