Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 279
es the dining-room, Gothic furnitureis well adapted and unquestionably effective. The form of chair calledGlastonbury, which is a modification of the Gothic, is peculiarlyadapted for the library or hall use. So early as the twelfth centuryrows of small balustrades had been employedto support the… … DRAWING-ROOM CrfAIR. 369. METAL CHAIRS. In ancient dayschairs were not unfrequently made of metal,as bronze, or iron, or even silver. Such wasthe famous chair of Dagobert. When DonMartin, king of Aragon, returned triumphantfrom his Sicilian campaign, he was borneinto Barcelona in a silver chair of…
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