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 352
in either case, not very likely to becomea man capable of earning his bread by labour. 654. Sttmip Bedsteads are common in the humblest description of dwellings inEngland, both in town and country. They are commonly made of wood, with sackingbottoms ; but as these materials are apt to harbour… … -^^^ Messrs. Cottam and Hallen of London, and sold complete with castors, when twofeet six inches wide, for one person, at 23s. eacli; and at a proportionate increase ofprice, according to the width, up to 33s., which is the price of an iron stump bedsteadfive feet wide. 635. Press Bedsteads are…
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