Old time wall papers; an account of the pictorial papers on our forefathers' walls, with a study of the historical development of wall paper making and decoration (1905)
s badly joined.I counted them once when I was laid up with a fineblack eye, and falling asleep immediately dreamed thatthe whole flock suddenly took wing and flew out of the 98 PLATE VI. Fragment of the famous old racing paper from theTimothy Dexter house. This is too broken and stainedto admit of… … NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE window. From that time I was never able to regardthem as merely inanimate objects. One of the most spirited papers I have seen is aseries of horse-racing scenes which once adorned thewalls of the eccentric Timothy Dexter. Fragments ofthis paper are still preserved, framed,…
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