A history of oak furniture

THE elder Mr. Weller once observed that more widows were married than single women, and approximating with this cryptic utterance is the remark which I recently heard, " There's more old furniture existing nowadays than was ever made years ago." When properly unravelled, the latter assertion may be accepted as a truism. Other equally certain but less known facts also exist. Since the increase of publication of well-illustrated books depicting specimens of ancient furniture of unusual interest as regards form or structure, the reduplication of such types with a simulated appearance of age has become an active industry. It is seldom, however, that the copymg of such pieces from a pictorial illustration is anything of a real success, and if once placed beside the genuine article the difference in contour and quality would be both obvious and surprising.

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A HISTORY OF OAK FURNITURE

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LIST OF PLATES

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. English Furniture. From the Thirteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century.

CHAPTER II. English or Foreign?

CHAPTER III. French Furniture. To The End of the Sixteenth Century.

CHAPTER IV. Furniture of the Netherlands.

CHAPTER V. Tyrolese Furniture.

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