Early English furniture & woodwork
- Author(s): Herbert Cescinsky and Ernest R Gribble
- Category: Furniture & Furnishings
- Publisher: London: G. Routledge
- Publish year: 1922
- ISBN: 9678000001405
- Number of Pages: 424
IN the attempt to write a history of English furniture and woodwork showing its development in an orderly progression, one is confronted by an initial difficulty ; where to begin. Of woodwork prior to the fourteenth century we know very little, and of furniture practicalh' nothing. Even if isolated specimens, for illustration, were available, — which is not the case, — they would be useless for our present purpose.
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Copyright
EARLY ENGLISH FURNITURE AND WOODWORK VOLUME II
CONTENTS
Chapter I. The Development of the Chest and Standing Cupboard.
Chapter II. The Progression of English Oak Tables.
Chapter III. The Development of the English Oak Chair.
Chapter IV. Walnut Chairs from 1660 to 1700.
Chapter V. English Marqueterie.
Chapter VI. Domestic Clocks.
Chapter VII. English Lacquer Work.
INDEX