The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 198
but g;avenone mounted upon legs. We find no mention ofchests of drawers in Sheratons work, published in1793, which shows how completely they had goneout of fashion in England at that time. The dressing-tables and dressing-drawers or bu-reaus that began to appear in New England soonafter the… … Fig. 41STEPS FOR TOP OF CHEST OF DRAWERS CHAPTER IV. DESKS. The desk in some form was probably coeval withthe art of writing with pen and ink. They are foundin Greek and Latin manuscripts as early as the ninthcentury. Examples of writing and reading desksfrom the ninth to the fifteenth century have…
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