The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 504
it signifiesintellectual taste in the former case, while it may^ perhaps, beonly a love of display in the other, A better mode of formingbook-shelves, is that of substituting sides of the same materialas the shelves, for the cords, as shown in page 45-i. The secretm-y^ or writing-desk, is an… … 424 COUNTRY HOUSKS. and when sliut up, forms part ofthe panelled front. The shelf onthe top may liold books or vasesfor jflowers, etc. Lihrcnnf tables are generally moreinas^sive than any other tablas, and:ae usually inlaid upon the t(ip Avithmorocco or cloth, to afford asmooth surface for writing…
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