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 222
ave been unable to find any proofin the inventories or elsewhere of its existence in theseventeenth century, and because we have not metwith the word bookcase till the year 1710, we are in-clined to think that the writing desks now underconsideration were not surmounted with cases forbooks till… … Fig. 49SCRUTOIB DESKS 123 Glasses &c on ye Scriptore, £1. The scriptore in this instance probably had anupper part with a flat top, upon which glass andchina ware were placed according to the fashion ofthe day. It is quite likely that the bookcases upon theearlier scrutoirs had flat instead of…
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