Furniture Of The Olden Time

How much more agreeable it is to sit in the midst of old furniture like Minotfs clocks and secretary and looking-glass, wbicb bave come down from otber generations, tban amid tbat whicb was just brought from tbe cabinet-maker* s, smelling of varnisb, like a coffin ! To sit under tbe face of an old clock tbat bas been ticking one hundred and fifty years — there is something mortal, not to say immortal, about it ; a clock that begun to tick when Massachusetts was a province. H. D. Thorbau, "Autumn"

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FURNITURE OF THE OLDEN TIME

Contents

List of Illustrations

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I CHESTS, CHESTS OF DRAWERS, AND DRESSING-TABLES

CHAPTER II BUREAUS AND WASHSTANDS

CHAPTER III BEDSTEADS

CHAPTER IV CUPBOARDS AND SIDEBOARDS

CHAPTER V DESKS

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