Packed with full-color illustrations celebrating the many faces of the American hearth, this book features hundred of fireplace styles and the rooms decorated around them. 15,000 first printing.
This seems to be a "tour of fireplaces through history" rather than anything useful. I imagine this was printed during the phase of producing books of pictures of anything and everything; outhouses, door knobs, garden paths,gnomes. . .
While some of those books are enjoyable I did not care for this one.