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Colonial Williamsburg: The Official Guide
This all-new guide to the Revolutionary City provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date information about Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. Colonial Williamsburg tells you what happened here and why it mattered - and still matters. The book includes a history Williamsburg and of individual sites, information on historic trades, profiles of Revolutionary figures, highlights from the Art Museums, and architectural history. Here, too, is what you need to know about hotels, taverns and restaurants, recreation, and shipping.
Paperback,
7 x 9-1/2,
256 pages,
282 color photos, 138 black and white drawings,
ISBN 978-087935-265-3,
$19.95
Early Seating Upholstery: Reading The Evidence
Collectors and museums long ignored or discarded historic upholstery. That they are now giving it the respect it deserves is in large part due to the groundbreaking contributions made by Colonial Williamsburg conservator Leroy Graves.
Collectors and museums long ignored or discarded historic upholstery. That they are now giving it the respect it deserves is in large part due to the groundbreaking contributions made by Colonial Williamsburg conservator Leroy Graves.
In Early Seating Upholstery, Graves illuminates the aesthetics and methods of early upholsterers. He examines the structure and components of furniture frames and upholstery materials, chronicles the evolution of upholstery fashions and techniques, and presents detailed case studies of side chairs, back stools, armchairs, easy chairs, settees, sofas, and couches. Graves also presents, step by step, his pioneering nonintrusive techniques for restoring upholstery.
Hardcover,
8.75â x 10.625â,
240 pages,
362 color and 23 black and white illustrations,
ISBN: 978-0-87935-278-3,
$65.00
Historic Trades
A picture book celebrating Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades, the largest, most diverse museum-operated trades program in the world. Here are masters and mistresses, the journeymen and journeywomen and apprentices at work, using traditional techniques and tools, and depicting the lives of working men and women in early America. All Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades are represented.
A picture book celebrating Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades, the largest, most diverse museum-operated trades program in the world. Here are masters and mistresses, the journeymen and journeywomen and apprentices at work, using traditional techniques and tools, and depicting the lives of working men and women in early America. All Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades are represented.
Hardcover,
50 color illustrations,
56 pages,
7.875" X 6.5",
92 color photos,
$9.95
JAMESTOWN - WILLIAMSBURG - YORKTOWN The Official Guide to America's Historic Triangle
Just in time for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has published a comprehensive guide to the "Historic Triangle."
Just in time for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has published a comprehensive guide to the "Historic Triangle."
It was in 1607 at Jamestown that John Smith and his fellow Englishmen established their first permanent settlement in North America. It was here that Smith met Pocahontas, that the first representative assembly in the New World convened, and that African slaves arrived. It was in Williamsburg that men like George Washington, Patrick Henry, George Mason, and Thomas Jefferson conceived a new nation. And it was at Yorktown that French and American troops under Washington's command forced the British surrender and won the nation's independence.
Link to the Past, Bridge to the Future Colonial Williamsburg's Animals
The lavishly illustrated book covers an eclectic array of livestock and pets, including those in the Rare Breeds program.
By John P. Hunter
Photography by David M. Doody
Additional photography by: Tom Green, Barbara Lombardi, Kelly Milhalcoe, and Lael White
This book provides a link to our colonial past, when animals were a vital part of everyday life. The lavishly illustrated book covers an eclectic array of livestock and pets, including those in the Rare Breeds program designed to preserve and showcase animals similar to those that lived in the colonial era. Link to the Past demonstrates the integral role of animals as they provided labor, transportation, recreation, and companionship.
8 1/2 X 10 1/2 inches
104 pages
190 color illustrations
Hardcover
March 2006
ISBN-13:978-0-87935-193-9
ISBN-10:0-87935-193-4
$14.95
Civil War Williamsburg
Civil War Williamsburg recounts the tragic, comic, and sometimes mundane events that made up life in Confederate and then Union-occupied Williamsburg during the Civil War.
By Carson O. Hudson, Jr.
Civil War Williamsburg recounts the tragic, comic, and sometimes mundane events that made up life in first Confederate and then Union-occupied Williamsburg during the Civil War. The writings of residents, soldiers, and refugees who experienced war and occupation firsthand are complemented by pictures from the time. Published in association with Stackpole Books 96 pp., 3 color illustrations, 28 duotones, 40 black-and-white illustrations, 4 maps, 7 x 9 ½ 1997 CW No. 574418 Softbound ISBN 0-87935-163-2 $10.95
Williamsburg: A Seasonal Sampler
Staff photographer David Doody's stunning color photographs capture Williamsburg's year-round beauty.
Photography by David M. Doody
Text by Thad W. Tate
Staff photographer David Doody's stunning color photographs capture Williamsburg's year-round beauty. The cycle of the seasons presents the glory of springtime blossoms and flowering trees, the agricultural tasks accomplished in the heat of a Tidewater summer, the heightened pace autumn brings, and the tranquility of soft, white wintertime snows. 90 pp., 104 color photographs, 8 x 10 1996; 3rd printing 1998 CW No. 471821 Hardbound ISBN 0-87935-168-3 $15.95
Colonial Williamsburg: The First 75 Years
Fascinating story of how the Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller Jr. went about restoring Virginia's colonial capital.
By Mary Miley Theobald
This book relates the fascinating story of how the Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., went about restoring Virginia's colonial capital. Equally engrossing is the account of how the Williamsburg that visitors see today turned a sleepy southern town into a city vibrant with the voices of history. 80 pp., 61 color photographs, 24 black-and-white photographs, 7 x 10 2001; 2nd printing 2002 CW No. 953810 Softbound ISBN 0-87935-220-5 $7.95
A Window on Williamsburg
Imaginative photography of Williamsburg's gardens, greens, buildings, historic trades, and people.
Photographs by Taylor Lewis, Jr.
Text by John J. Walklet, Jr., Thomas K. Ford, and Donna C. Sheppard
A Window on Williamsburg offers an intimate glimpse of the city, its gardens and greens, its buildings great and small, its historic trades, and its people. Imaginative photography captures perfectly the character and spirit of the restored capital of Virginia that is now Colonial Williamsburg. 80 pp., 121 color photographs, 7 x 9 1966; rev. ed. 1973; 3rd rev. ed. 2001 CW No. 1875 Also available in French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Russian, and Italian Softbound ISBN 0-87935-071-7 $10.95
Williamsburg - Three Hundred Years Freedom's Journey
Williamsburg — Three Hundred Years re-creates in photographs and words significant moments from the history of Williamsburg.
By Suzanne E. Coffman
Photography by David M. Doody
Additional photography by Tom Green, Kelly Jo Mihalcoe, and Lael White
New photography directed by Carson O. Hudson, Jr.
Williamsburg — Three Hundred Years re-creates in photographs and words significant moments from the history of Williamsburg. It brings to life events that occurred in this important town and stories about the people who experienced them. 112 pp., 190 color photographs, 8 1/2 x 11 1999; 2nd printing 2000 CW No. 735274 Softbound ISBN 0-87935-192-6 $12.95
Williamsburg Before and After The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital
Delightfully informative text which traces the rise and fall of Williamsburg before and after the colonial capital of Virginia moved to Richmond.
By George Humphrey Yetter
In Williamsburg Before and After, George Yetter's delightfully informative text describes why Williamsburg was founded and flourished during the colonial period. He traces the gradual deterioration that followed when the capital moved to Richmond in 1780, and concludes with the exciting story of how the Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., worked together to save Williamsburg's past. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps capture the flavor of "pre-restoration" Williamsburg. Lovely color "after" photographs show that the vision and dream Goodwin and Rockefeller shared have been fulfilled. 198 pp., 116 color photographs, 133 duotones, 14 black-and-white illustrations, 11 x 9; 1988; 9th printing 2001 CW No. 171298 Hardbound ISBN 0-87935-077-6 $26.95 Deluxe Edition CW No. 877704 Hardbound and slipcased ISBN 087935-213-2 $26.95
Colonial Williamsburg, revised edition
A splendid, lavishly illustrated volume considered to be the most detailed, all-inclusive book about Williamsburg ever published.
By Philip Kopper
Photographs by Langdon Clay
Colonial Williamsburg issued this splendid volume, the most detailed and comprehensive book ever produced about the colonial capital, in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of its founding. Philip Kopper's sparkling and information-packed text, which guides readers from the earliest settlement in the seventeenth century, through the Civil War and the rebirth of the town in the early twentieth century, culminates in the magnificent present-day restoration. A revised and updated section pays particular attention to the discoveries, restorations, and programs instituted and completed in the last fifteen years. Published in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers 320 pp., 300 color photographs, 77 black-and-white photographs, 10 x 12 2001 CW No. 119024 Hardbound ISBN 0-8109-0609-0 $65.00
