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 248
rd of its having been made by a Clergyman here.President Holyoke added the round knobs to the chair, whichhe turned himself. Dr. H. has been asked about it fifty times. A correspondent has put into the Editors hands the follow-ing curious extracts from Horace Walpoles Private Corre-spondence,… … Fig. 54 TURNED CHAIR Early sixteenth century CHAIRS 139 HORACE WALPOLE TO GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ. Strawberry-Hill, August 20, 1761. Dickey Bateman has picked up a whole cloister full of oldchairs in Herefordshire. He bought them one by one, here andthere in farm-houses, for three-and-sixpence, and a…
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