Irish furniture
Subtitle: woodwork and carving in Ireland from the earliest times to the Act of Union
By: the Knight of Glin and James Peill ; including A dictionary of Irish furniture-makers by John Rogers; with photography by James Fennell and Dara McGrath.
Contributors: Peill, James.; Burns, Brian P.. donor.
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press; Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780300117158
Subjects: Furniture -- Ireland -- History -- 17th century.; Furniture -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Wood-carving -- Ireland -- History -- 17th century.; Wood-carving -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.
Description: "This illustrated and comprehensive volume is the first devoted entirely to the subject of Irish furniture and woodwork. It provides a detailed survey, encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for the great houses, from earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-319) and index.

Brian P. Burns ; gift ; 2007.

Burns Library copy: Signed presentation inscription: "For the Burns Libary, Knight of Glin, in Boston Oct. 2007"
Table of contents: title: Furniture and woodwork up to the restoration of Charles II in 1660; title: Eestoration period; title: Carving in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; title: Ireland in the second quarter of the eighteenth century; title: Furniture of the mid-eighteenth century; title: Ireland in the late eighteenth century; title: Catalogue of Irish furniture; title: Appendix I: A dictionary of eighteenth-century Irish furniture-makers by John Rogers; title: Appendix II: Charles Coleman's Bill.