Early Sydney Cabinetmakers

A foundational study of Sydney's early furniture makers, documenting the craftsmen, workshops, techniques, and stylistic influences that shaped colonial cabinetmaking from the late 18th century through the mid-19th century. Earnshaw's research draws on surviving furniture, trade records, advertisements, and archival sources to reconstruct the working lives of Sydney's joiners, chairmakers, upholsterers, and cabinetmakers, dust jacket soiled, loss to front edge.