Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 216
erever they are seen; and nothing has a pleasantereffect on them than a high dado of the thick and almost indestructibleleather-paper which seems like the stuffed leather wainscots of generationssince. For the fitting of the book shelves and cases it will be found, whereverpracticable, rather the… … Library, Louis XIII. is used, and not the bare polished margin of floor with rugs; and there isthen no giving-out of the shelves, or tilting of this or that support, or col-lecting of dust beneath them, as often happens with movable bookcases,and they can be made quite as handsome as the others.…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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