Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 131
Desks 107 The desk with flat top in Illustration 72 is alsoin the Waters collection. It measures twenty-sixinches in length by seventeen in width. It is … lllus. 71. —Desk-boxes. 1654. made of oak, like the smaler desk in the precedingillustration. The next style of desk made its appearance in theinventories of about 1660, under a name with Frenchderivation: scrutoir, scriptor, scrittore, scru-tor, scriptoire, ,down to the phoneti-cally spelled…
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