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 208
Fig. 46 CARVED BOX WITH DRAWER … Fig. 45 CARVED OAKEN BOX Dated i6ee DESKS 11 5 That some desks were made solely to inclose booksand papers is apparent from the following facts: — Barretts Alvearie, London, 1580, gives a desketo write upon, or to keepe bookes in. In the inven-tory of Henry Brickwell, made in 1589-90, and…
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