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 242
shown in our illus-trations, Figs. 48, 49, and 50, are sometimes calledbureau desks in Salem to this day. The writing desk with a deep flap, vertical whenclosed, which came in fashion in France about 1750,did not obtain any foothold in New England duringthe eighteenth century. Examples of this… … Fig. 53 THE PRESIDENTS CHAIR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY DESKS 135 in Fig. 52. They differ from the desk and bookcase,he says, in not being sloped in front. The accom-modations therefore for writing are produced by theface of the upper drawer falling down by means ofa spring and quadrant, which produces…
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