Chats on old furniture: A practical guide for collectors

This volume has been written to enable those whohave a taste for the furniture of a bygone day toarrive at some conclusion as to the essential points ofthe various styles made in England.An attempt has been made to give some lucidhistorical account of the progress and developmentin the art of making domestic furniture, with especialreference to its evolution in this country.

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Copyright

CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE

PREFACE

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED

THE RENAISSANCE ON THE CONTINENT

THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

STUART OR JACOBEAN. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY

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