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 238
ir fordepositing papers of accounts. We also know thatthe word btireau was used in England and in hercolonies in the eighteenth century to designate achest of drawers for clothes; but how early it wasemployed in this sense it is very difficult, if not im-possible, to tell from the dictionaries.… … SECRET DESKS 133 we have examined, they have invariably proved to bebedchambers. That in some of these instances the bedroom con-tained no other piece that could have been used asa bureau or dressing-table. This is found to havebeen the case in the houses of Pyam Blowers, JohnPhillips, and Thomas…
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