An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 335
foot, is a table for invalids, commonly called a bed tal)le ;which is a very great convenience to a person bedridden. The top of this table ismade to rise and fall at pleasure, by raising or lowering the upper part of the pillar, a,wliich is perforated with holes at given distances, and which works… … and tenon, and at top the four pieces are confined by an iron ferule, to keep the joints from opening: tlie mortise at bottom suflficiently confines the lower part of the pillar. The height of the top is regulated by moving the pin at c ; the block or foot, of which d represents a plan, is…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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