Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 130
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 … liius. /I. — .-cSK-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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