"Because of the increasing demand for woodworking projects embracing the designs of the famous masters, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton, the author has endeavored to secure dimensioned sketches and photographs of old fashioned furniture." Frederick J. Bryant. Active in the early 20th Century Manual Arts education movement, Frederick J. Bryant sought out period furniture, found in local Maine towns, of "singular form and beauty". Tables: Gate-leg, Card, Tea, Work, Tip-Top, Breakfast, Tavern Clocks: Grandfather, Banjo Chairs: Windsor, Hepplewhite, Empire Mirrors: Colonial, Old Fashioned With notes on wood finishing