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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)

Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 236

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workof gold and silver and ivory. The Greekand Roman bedstead (or perhaps oneshould write bench) had frequently raisedliead and foot ends, and back-boards. Incommon with most other products ofart-crafts at the fall of Roman power, ornamental bedsteads ceased tobe made in Western Europe, and some… … COLLAPSIBLE EGYPTIAN CAMP-BED. ANGLO-SAXON BEDS The beds of the Anglo-Saxons are virtually the beginnings ofEnglish furniture of repose, although the Romans doubtless broughttheir beds with their other home appointments, when they cameto Britain in the days when Britainwas a Roman province with…

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