The book of American interiors, prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustrated in heliotype (1876)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co. · leaf 45
at few domestic buildings were without dining-roomsentirely detached from the hall. In the accounts of the Surveyor- * Turners Domestic Architecture, Fourteenth Century. 38 THE DINING-ROOM. General to Henry VIII., before referred to, we find a statement ofthe repairs done to the kynges dynyng… … with his retainers and servants went out of fashion. A moreexclusive feeling began to prevail, and much to the disgust of theold-time people; for growing out of this change the widespreadand beautiful habit of hospitality was gradually abandoned. Upto this period the custom in all great houses was…
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