by Nina Fletcher Little. Softbound, 204 pages, 6-1/2" x 9". A comprehensive study of boxes used before the Civil War in the United States. The author examines a variety of boxes designed for household, artistic, and recreational purposes throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Small Shaker boxes, tobacco boxes, hat boxes and candle boxes right up to the storage chests still used today. A must for the collector of antique boxes.