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 232
heratonsays:— In England it has generally been applied to common deskswith drawers under them, such as are made very frequently incountry towns. They run from 3 to 4 feet long, and have threeheights of common drawers under them, the upper one dividedinto two in length. The desk flap turns down to… … Fig. 51SCRUTOIR WITH BOOKCASE DESKS 129 nearly obsolete in London; at least they are so amongst fashion-able people. I have, however, endeavoured to retrieve their ob-scurity, by adding to them an open book case, and modernizingthe lower part, as in plate 23, where they are called Bureau Book-case.…
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