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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)

Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 284

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naissance furniture which spread 27 206 DECORATIVE FURNITURE to France in his days, it was, in England, reserved for the courtand times of the Second Charles to express its love of luxury, and ape the opulence ofI II *^® French court by silver-mounted furni-ture — such as thatpresented by… … JAMES II Lilliburlero—lero—^lero—Lilliburlero, bullen—a-la. History has as usual revised its previous slap-dashpresentment. James ii. is now deemed to have beena tactless not unkindly fool, the tool of traitorousself-ambitious missioners, rather than a malevolenttyrant scheming to hand his subjects…

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