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The Architectural review and American builders' journal (1869)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, Lukens, Charles J · [Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger] · leaf 58

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in methodand fitting as to do awav with the lea-braces, depending upon the legs alonefor support and security. Their usualheight of seat was about the same asat present, namely: the average humanknee-joint, although thej had somevery low, and others with an inclinationof the seat, like modern… … back conjoined, we cannot tell certainlythe exact inclination of seat and back;but there is a very close approximationto the experimental improved form here-in advocated. See 1st Series, Vol. II,pages 195 and 382 ; also Vol. Ill, p. 110.It is a very frequent practice amongchair-makers to depiess…

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