Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1065212 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-28
• Released on: 2003-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author
DAVID RAGO owns the auction house David Rago Auctions and has appeared frequently as an appraiser on PBS's Antiques Roadshow. The author of five books, he publishes two quarterly magazines. He lives with his wife in New Jersey.

BRUCE JOHNSON hosts the National Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show at the historic Grove Park Inn each February and has written eight books and hundreds of articles on the Arts & Crafts movement. He lives with his two sons in Asheville, North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

One to own
Like any field of collecting and enjoying antiques, there are numerous books on the market to wade through. The Arts and Crafts movement also gets blanket coverage by a deluge of 'style' books on home interiors, exteriors and so on. This book is a must have for all A&C enthusiasts in terms of providing a quick yet comprehensive look at the movement, collecting subgroups, the top makers, and the range of pieces and prices. The book does not however provide any in-depth coverage of the range of more affordable and more widely available pieces that most people will come across in their antique hunting. Rago is the expert on the high-end and this book is focussed as such. As a reference, it is one to own. I look forward to his newest book due summer '05.