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 50
e, but of the middle andthe humbler classes. Chairs at this time came from Spain as well as from Venice;and many of these Spanish chairs Avere covered with black ox-hide richly embossed, and studded with brass nails. Wooden seatsalso were made in England of many kinds and with more or lesscarving.… … Coffee was added to the drinks of England by a Greek namedCanopins in 1637. Twenty years later coffee-houses dispensed thedrink in the streets of London. Tea was introduced about the middle of the seventeenth century,and was sold in 1657 at fifty shillings a pound. I did send, says Pepys, in 1661,…
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