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 282
ng on rods - andthe nearly simultaneous adoption of pendant lamps from the tester ofthe bed ; also the introduction of sheets, in the thirteenth centuryThe finest examples extant of early bedsteads are found in FranceLittle but fragments remain of English specimens of similar datesYet some of our… … wood large, and in some places gilt. In this the usurper slept on thenight before the battle, at the Blue Boar inn, Leicester, and the relic was in existence two hundred years after. Pennant says that a stump bedstead preserved at Berkeley Castle, in the room in which Edward II. was murdered, is…
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