London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 680
, when on a tour in that country in the summer of 1838 ;and he then made the sketches from which Jigs. 288, 289. havebeen engraved. The chairs are made just high enough in theback to reach up to the back part of the head of the personsitting in them, so as to enable him to rest his head on it in… … great emporium for furniture in North America. Fig. 288. ismade of mahogany, and costs at Boston about 40 dollars, or 8/.;but some of this kind are made with more carving, and cost agood deal more. Fig. 289. is made of birch, elm, or any morecommon wood and costs at Boston about 21. 10s. In America…
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