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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 284

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rther back than the twelfth century,appears to havesprung the sideboard,or buffet, and etagereof later days. Thedresser (dressoir) it-self, on which, in theolder manorial halls,the goldsmiths work,or reliquaries,or othervalued bric-h-brac ofthe feudal lord werepiled, had been bor-rowed from… … MODERN GOTHIC SIDEBOARD. world, and in the baronial hall stood at first near the seigneurs diningtable, in order that the page must rest thereon the wine-oup which he 240 Artistic Homes. had just tasted for detection of poison. Then the dresser assumedgreater importance, and instead of being a kind…

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