The copyright page says" first and second printings before publication, third printing March 1944 "...Entertaining inside story of the fashion and passion for antique furniture and interior decoration. With caustic wit and delightful irony, the author, who is a furniture designer himself, debunks the 'untouchable trinity of the antique legend,' Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton." Drawings by Mary Petty