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 357
a, b, c, is tlie bed frame, a and b being the side rails, and c the bottom rail; d is thehead-board which fixes into a groove in the head posts. These posts, being intended tobe covered with that part of the bed hangings called the head piece, are made plain;while the bottom posts, which are… … tent bedstead, manufactured by Messrs. Cottam and Hallen, which costs, when two feelsix inches wide, 56.t. 6d., and when five feet wide, 77.?. 661. Four-Post Bedsteads are more suitable for villas than for cottages, except perhapsthe cheap and excellent ones made of wrought iron, which do not cost…
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